PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ben Pridmore, Retrograde Amnesia, Free Recall
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15: mirror drawing test illustrates the difference between explicit and implicit memory, most people are terrible but will improve, he also showed improvement though he did not recall doing the task previously. Improvement illustrates intact implicit memory: lack of memory of training sessions shows deficit in explicit, medial temporal amnesia memory. Korsakoff"s sy(cid:374)dro(cid:373)e: form of brain damage that is attributed to thiamine deficiency, often accompanies heavy alcohol consumption. Involves severe anterograde and retrograde amnesia, sensory and motor problems, extreme confusion, and personality changes: medial diencephalic amnesia. Sensory memory: brief fleeting sensory store, echoic memory (auditory) 5-10 s. Long term memory: more permanent storage, explicit (declarative, episodic: experienced events, semantic: knowledge and concepts. Implicit (non declarative: procedural, conditioning, priming, e. g. incomplete pictures test, someone who had originally seen picture would be better able to complete the picture. In stage 1, all of the participant"s experience an event.
