PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 26: Interference Theory, Source Amnesia, Long-Term Memory

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Anterograde amensia: you could recall the past, but cant from new memories. Retrograde amnesia: cant recall past the info in long term memory. These patients can learn how to do something, but they will have no conscious recall of learning their new skill. Such cases can confirm that we have two distinct memory systems, controlled by different parts of the brain. The brain areas that jump into action when young adults encode new. Age can affect encoding efficiency information are less responsive in older adults. This slower encoding helps explain age related memory decline. External events sensory memory - (attention) -> working/short term memory (encoding encoding failure leads to forgetting) long term memory. We can not remember what we have not encoded. The course of forgetting is initially rapid, then levels off with time. Memories become sometimes incassible, some never acquired (encoded) , and others out of reach because we cant retrieve them.