PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Long-Term Memory, Short-Term Memory, Encoding Specificity Principle
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Henry molaison (h. m. ): underwent a surgery for his sever epilepsy. He got his medial temporal lobes, including hippocampus, removed in hopes of stopping the seizures. However from this surgery, he lost the ability to form new long term memories. The only memories he had were the ones that he knew at the time of the surgery (childhood, members of his family, etc). He was able to learn new things and acquire knowledge, but not remember it or remember doing it. Memory: the nervous system"s capacity to acquire and retain useable skills and knowledge. According to treisman"s theory about attention, we automatically identity. Effortful: takes longer and requires more attention. Conjunction task: stimulus you are looking for is made up of two simple features. Because attention is limited, it is hard to perform two tasks at once, especially if they rely on the same mechanisms. Selective attention can operate at multiple stages of processing.
