PSYB57H3 Midterm: chapter notes for psyb57 midterm.docx
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Chapter notes for psb57: cognitive psychology 1-5 respectively. Amnesia: because of brain damage, it is the loss of ability to remember certain materials. H. m was a patient who had memory lost after his brain surgery that was carried out to control his epilepsy. He survived for more than 50 years after his operation, he had no trouble remembering events prior to his surgery but was unable to recall any events that occurred after his operation. Henry molaison identified as h. m, died in 2008. " cognitive psychology: scientific study of the acquisition, retention and use of knowledge ". Introspects had to be trained and given vocabulary to describe exactly what they observe. They were to report on their experiences with minimum interpretation. Drawback: some thoughts are unconscious providing that it was a limited research tool can only study conscious events, gives no insight into unconscious material.
