PSY 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Security Number, Retrograde Amnesia, Dementia
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Intro to psychology chapter six: after eve had used "elaborative rehearsal" to remember her. Social security number, the information: carl is able to remember the names of the first three presidents before he begins to have difficulty. Dana appears to be suffering from _____: dr. mccrae encourages her students to go beyond just memorizing definitions. She teaches them that if they fully understand the meanings of the concepts covered in class, they will be able to remember them much longer. Unfortunately, you"re having a difficult time remembering anything that you learned previously. Alzheimer"s decay: jade was asked to participate in an experiment. The experimenter the digit-span test read aloud to her a series of numbers she was asked to repeat back to him in the same order. As jade continued to answer correctly, the lists became longer and longer until she finally couldn"t get the numbers right.
