PSYC 3330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Anterograde Amnesia, Autobiographical Memory, Memory Consolidation
12 Apr 2016
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The paient"s view: meltzer experienced memory problems ater a heart atack. He thought he was younger than he was, he had trouble remembering were things were kept. He had trouble remembering skills such as seing an alarm clock, paying bills, how to arrange a vacaion. The view from psychology: people with memory problems have made a substanial contribuion to the understanding of how memory works. Hm showed the need for separate short term and long term memory systems. Impairments in stm help with showing the parts of working memory and their signiicance. Clinical evidence aided with understanding semanic and autobiographical memory. Anterograde amnesia: a problem in encoding, storing, or retrieving informaion that can be used in the future, amnesic syndrome involves impaired episodic memory with preserved working, semanic, implicit memory and intelligence, levels. Greater suscepibility to interference leading to retrieval deicit, faster forgeing, and an incapacity for deep processing.
