HSM 330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 24: Anterograde Amnesia, Transient Global Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Health Services Management
• Course: HSM 330
• Professor: Daolun Chen

Document Summary

Learning is the acquisition of new information or knowledge. Memory for facts and events is called declarative memory. The one that this course focuses on is procedural memory memory for skills, habits and behaviours. Declarative memory can be accessed for conscious recollection, and non-declarative memories cannot. Non-declarative memory is also frequently called implicit memory because it results from direct experience whereas declarative memory is often called explicit memory because it results from more conscious effort. Declarative memories are easy to form and are easily forgotten. On the other hand, non- declarative memories tend to require repetition and practice over a longer period of time but are less likely to be forgotten. Long-term memories are those that you can recall days, months or years after they were originally stored. Memories that are readily lost are called short-term memories and these last on the order of seconds to hours and are vulnerable to disruption.