PSY 312 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Temporal Lobe, Transient Global Amnesia, Brain Ischemia
6 Mar 2017
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11. 1 amnesic effects of bilateral medial temporal lobectomy. Short-term memory: storage of new information for brief period of time while a person attends to it. Long-term memory: storage of new information once the person stops attending to it. Digit span +1: a classic test of verbal long-term memory. Block-tapping memory span test: 9 blocks were spread out on a board in front of him- asked ot watch the neuropsychologist touch a sequence of them and then to repeat the same sequence of touches. Mirror-drawing test: traces star in a mirror. Pavlovian conditioning: classical training for a noise to administer a blink. Incomplete-pictures test: employs five sets of fragmented drawing. The case of kc: motorcycle accident (1981) suffered diffuse brain damage, including damage to the medial temporal lobes. Cannot remember a personal event for more than a minute or two. Semantic vs episodic memory: s= explicit memories for general facts or information.
