PSYC 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Fugue State, 50 First Dates, Anterograde Amnesia
4 Apr 2014
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Page 148-167, 20 pages page 1 of 6. Distinguishing btwn ltm & stm: korsakoff"s syndrome: condition caused by prolonged deficiency of vitamin b1, usually as a result of chronic alcoholism. Retrograde amnesia: loss of memory for events that have happened in the past: long-term memory (ltm): system responsible for storing large amounts of info for long periods of time, an archive about past events in our lives. Stm is to ram, working memory is to cpu, and ltm is to hard drive. Long-term & short-term processes: recollections in ltm stretch from a few moments ago to years to decades back (long duration, large capacity). To some subjects, he asked them to repeat words out loud during the 5-second interval between words, but not told which ones to repeat. This prevented rehearsal and allowed time for info to be lost from stm, such that the recency effect was eliminated.
