PSYCH257 Study Guide - Final Guide: Dsm-5, Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex, Schizotypal Personality Disorder

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH257
• Professor: David Moscovitch

Document Summary

Re-experiencing or reliving a past event in the mind; mental time travel. Familiarity - a stimulus is recognized or experienced as old, but little or information associated about the context in which it was encountered. Generic - facts and general knowledge about the world, language etc. Hm - taught us how memories were formed. Was suffering from constant seizures so dr removed hippocampus and amygdala. When he woke he couldn"t form new memories and couldn"t remember a lot from his past. Kc - taught us how we make memories personal. Was in a motorcycle accident and lost both his hippo campuses among other brain structure. Demonstrated well preserved memory for episodes with a reverse gradient for personally relevant names. Hw - confabulation: he"d make up memories in detail that were real to him but not factual. A disturbance in attention (reduced ability to direct, focus, sustain, and shift attention) and awareness (reduced orientation to the environment)