PSY 255 Chapter 1-16: textbook notes
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Clive is an extremely talented musician, an expert on early music who was master of a major london choir. When he recovered consciousness, clive was densely amnesic and appeared to be unable to store information for longer than seconds. One part of his memory remained unimpaired, that part concerned music. The fact that clive"s musical memory and skills are unimpaired suggests that memory is not a single simple system. They summarize our knowledge in a simple and structured way that helps us to understand what is known. A good theory will help us to ask new questions and that in turn will help us find out more about the topic we are mapping. In the case of psychological theories, different theories will operate at different levels of explanation and focus on different issues. All of these explanations are relevant and in principle should be relatable to each other, but none is the single correct interpretation.
