PSYC 309 Lecture Notes - Alexander Luria, Anterograde Amnesia, Carl Wernicke
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Severe brain stem damage, completely conscious but you can"t move anything except your eyes. Improving athletic performance: maybe mental practice and visualizing that you can do something can improve performance. Its often the case that there is sudden decline with age that affects memory. Some ppl have a better memory that somebody else. But what about the people that are struggling, maybe we can build things that can help with these. 3 steps for psyc: absorning: taking info in, processing: recognize objects and use mental computations to make decisions, responding: make a decision and take a course of action. The big challenge: stimulus to brain. Active process to try to understand how a mental process happens. What"s that cascade of events that happened that allows this to occur. Limitions: difficult to verify someone else"s report, not always aware, end product of the process and not only the process itself. Another way to look at this is behaviorism.
