PSY100H1 Midterm: midterm2
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Hm"s seizures: doctors tried removing the temporal lobes (including the hippocampus) to stop the seizures from spreading throughout the brain. The surgery succeeded in stopping the seizures, but it also resulted in the patient losing the ability to form new long term memories. The patient could recall old memories and practises, but now form any new ones. Hm did however have the ability to learn new motor tasks among other things, he just didn"t know it. Memory = the capacity f the nervous sustem to acquire and retain usable skills and knowledge. To answer questions relating to ourselves, we rely on memories from past experiences. Memories are often incomplete, distorted and biased. Since the 1960s, psychologists have viewed memory as a form of information processing in which memory processes occur in the same way as they do in a computer.
