PSY 265 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Karl Lashley, Lexical Decision Task, Explicit Memory
Document Summary
Outline of chapter 6: learning and remembering (6. 4) Amnesia the catastrophic loss of memories or memory abilities caused by brain damage or disease. The loss of memory in amnesia is always considered in relation to the time of the injury. Retrograde amnesia loss of memory for events before the brain injury. Commonly shows a temporal gradient memories that are more distant in time from the injury are less impaired. Anterograde amnesia disruption in acquiring new memories for events occurring after the brain injury. Dissociation a disruption in one component of cognition, but no impairment of another. If 2 mental processes a & b are dissociated, then a might be disrupted by brain damage while b remains normal. The opposite of dissociation is association a situation in which a & b are so completely connected that damage to one would always disrupt the others (e. g. , recognizing objects and recognizing pictures of objects).
