PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Psychogenic Amnesia, Fugue State, Anterograde Amnesia

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Freud: traumatic events are repressed: less likely to be remembered, we have the ability to repress that traumatic memory, cases where some people have emotional arousal and then remember. Science: emotionally-arousing events are enhanced, more likely to be remembered, how/why? Takes place when we experience trauma, emotional arousal takes place, encoding happens during the event, transfers to long term memory. Two stage process by which events become stored in long-term memory: Consolidation (module 7. 1: slow (in the hours, days, months, years following the event) If there(cid:859)s e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)al info in environment where you are being threatened, particular elements of that scene will be particularly important. Adaptive: helps us to avoid similar situations in future. I(cid:374)stead of erasi(cid:374)g (cid:373)e(cid:373)ory, it takes the e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)al (cid:862)sti(cid:374)g(cid:863) out of it. When: pre-e(cid:374)(cid:272)odi(cid:374)g (cid:894)for soldiers, 1st respo(cid:374)ders (cid:895, post-encoding (after traumatic event) Persistence caused by the release of stress hormones during emotional arousal. Candidate drugs: inhibit release of stresshormones: e. g. , beta-adrenergic antagonists, or betablockers (e. g. , propranolol)