PSYCH101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Savant Syndrome, Kim Peek, Daniel Tammet

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Daniel tammet is also a savant, more precisely a high functioning autistic savant. Both daniel and kim have ability to store and retrieve an amazing amount of information. Stephen wiltshire: another savant that is known as the human camera". All of these savants were thought to be unable to learn as children because they did not speak till they were much older than most children. Comparison symbolically represented by computers: a mind like computers is a processing system that encodes, stores and retrieves information. Encoding: putting information into the system (like inputting data on computer by typing) Storage: retaining information over time (saving information on computer or external memory ie. flash drive) Retrieval: ability to pull information out of storage when needed (open files on computer to retrieve specific information) Remembering requires all 3 of the processes: 1. If any of them don"t work then it can cause memory failure. Unconscious transference example: dr. thompson was a psychologist who studied.