PSY270H1 Chapter 6: Chapter 6 reading
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Koraskoff"s syndrome: condition caused by vitamin b1 deficiency, usually as a result of chronic alcoholism causes severe and permanent impairments to frontal/temporal lobes -> memory. Anterograde amnesia: loss of ability to assimilate/retain new knowledge. Retrograde amnesia: loss of memory for events that happened in the past. Long-term memory (ltm): system responsible for storing information for long periods of time. long and very large. Provides an archive for reference and background information we consult as we use our working memory to make contact with a particular moment. Murdoch: serial position experiment read 15 words at rate of 2 seconds, asked person to write all words remembered in order. Function: serial position curve: memory is better for words at the beginning of the list and at the end o. Primacy effect: time to rehearse and transfer to ltm: recency effect: most recently presented words are still in the stm.
