PSY270H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Working Memory, Recognition Memory
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Korsakoff"s syndrome: condition caused by a prolonged deficiency of vitamin b1, usually as a result of chronic alcoholism: destruction of areas in the frontal and temporal lobes, causes severe and permanent impairments in memory. Anterograde amnesia: loss of the ability to assimilate or retain new knowledge. Retrograde amnesia: loss of memory for events that have happened in the past. Ltm: system responsible for storing information for long periods of time. Ltm = archive that we can refer to as we use working memory. Prevented rehearsal and loss of info from stm. Delay eliminated the recency effect which was due to storage of recent items in stm. Coding in long-term memory: distinguish stm and ltm by comparing the way information is coded by the two systems, auditory, visual, semantic coding can occur for both, semantic coding is predominant type of coding in ltm.
