PSY 246 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Echoic Memory, Iconic Memory, Long-Term Memory
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7. 1 types of memories: multiple memory systems rather than a unitary phenomenon. Learning: a relatively permanent change in behaviour as a function of experience. Learning concerned with attending to the information (encoding) and storing it for later use (consolidation: memory: concerned with retrieving the information from where it was stored (retrieval, forgetting might serve an important function in the brain. The visuospatial sketchpad: responsible for manipulation of visuospatial images, two subunits: one responsible for mental imagery and one responsible for spatial information, mental imagery does not require participation visual system. 7. 2 disorders of memory: amnesia: the failure to encode, store, or retrieve a memory. Cortical dementias: alzhei(cid:373)e(cid:396)"s (cid:373)ost (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) (cid:894)50% of diag(cid:374)oses of de(cid:373)e(cid:374)tia(cid:895, alzhei(cid:373)e(cid:396)"s disease (ad): person who exhibited brain atrophy and senile dementia; slow. Apoe: pick"s disease (cid:894)p(cid:272)d(cid:895): (cid:396)a(cid:396)e; o(cid:272)(cid:272)u(cid:396)s ea(cid:396)lie(cid:396) tha(cid:374) ad; slo(cid:449) a(cid:374)d (cid:373)o(cid:396)e su(cid:271)tle ad; hype(cid:396)o(cid:396)ality (increased exploration of objects with mouth); hyperphagia (excessive eating); atrophy in temporal and frontal cortices.
