PSY 3377 Study Guide - Final Guide: Retrograde Amnesia, Anterograde Amnesia, Autobiographical Memory
4 Dec 2017
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Info storage from 30 seconds ago to your earliest memories. Memory: motor, visual, semantic, procedural, (un)conscious, spatial, context/source, associative. Proposal of fractionation (hebb): short & long-term memory are different: one is the result of the electrical activity within a network of neurons vs. permanent changes (synaptic connections) within neural networks. Span task: remember items in correct order; every nth numerical sequence is the same; recall increases when n repeats (long term memory influences on short term memory task) K. c. suffered an accident- extensive lesions to brain: left frontal-parietal, right parietal-occipital areas. No episodic memory, cannot relive events of his past (does not remember experience) Semantic memory intact, can remember general info about the past (remembers facts) Episodic can be lost, leaving (fade) only semantic. Semantic can be enhanced if associated with episodic. Autobiographical memory: memory of specific experiences, includes semantic and episodic. Personal semantic memory: semantic memories that have personal significance.
