PSY372H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Anterograde Amnesia, Frontal Lobe, Episodic Memory
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Psy372 lecture 1 (chapter 1; what is memory?) Memory mental capacity to retain and retrieve facts, events, impressions, sensations, emotions, etc. Need memory to be conscious, form identity, form personality, learn. Types of memory have different duration of storage and how much storage there is. Procedural memory/basal ganglia skills, habits, tasks (cid:862)k(cid:374)o(cid:449)i(cid:374)g ho(cid:449)(cid:863) Hull psychological theory learning of rats and people predicted by equations from physics. Cognitive maps internal representation of environment to help navigate, learned through latent learning (acquire/code/store/recall spatial info. ) Different psychological theories use different sets of knowledge to explain phenomena; no one theory is fully correct, all theories relatable e. g. a social psychologist would have a different theory from a cognitive psychologist, developmental psychologist, clinical psychologist. Theory summarize knowledge in simple, structured way to help understanding e. g. cognitive psychology theory = 2 processes needed for recognition memory, familiarity + recollection.
