PSYC100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Anterograde Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia, Inattentional Blindness
19 Mar 2016
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Memory the nervous system"s capacity to acquire and retain skills and knowledge. Atenion one"s limited ability to focus on relevant informaion and block out irrelevant informaion; do not mulitask; efects encoding. Filter theory atenion is selecive we choose the simuli we want to pay atenion to: caveats (holes) you cannot choose to not pay atenion to . Pain in some instances may supersede any thoughts (ex: child birth) Faces readily capture our atenion (especially: fear and angry faces) Cocktail party efect a personally relevant simuli; ex: you can hear someone say your name all the way across the room. Subliminal unconsciousness always allow for some simuli to be taken in. Clive wearing has the worst case of amnesia; case study: retrograde amnesia lose past memories, anterograde amnesia lose ability to form new memories. Fear learning learning through fear: prefrontal cortex disinguishes us from other mammals; higher order of cogniion, more complex and organized.
