PSY290H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Anterograde Amnesia, Mammillary Body, Autobiographical Memory
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Learning is the process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information, behaviour patterns, or abilities, characterized by modifications of behaviour as a result of practice, study, or experience. Memory is the ability to learn and neutrally encode information, consolidate the information for longer term storage, and retrieve the consolidated memory at a later time; the specific information that is stored in the brain. There are several kinds of learning and memory. Patient h. m. henry molaison had most of his memories intact, but had difficulty recollecting any events that took place after his surgery. There are two general categories of memory: declarative memory what we usually think of as memory. A memory that can be stated or described. This type of memory was impaired by henry"s surgery: non-declarative memory also known as procedural memory, is memory about perceptual or motor procedures, and is shown by performance rather than by conscious recollection. The type of memory we use for how problems.
