PSY270H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Recognition Memory, Retrograde Amnesia, Anterograde Amnesia

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY270H1
• Professor: Kristie Dukewich

Document Summary

Korsakoff"s syndrome: sever and permanent impairments in memory. Retrograde amnesia: loss of memory for events that have happened in the past. Long-term memory: system responsible for storing information for long periods of time: due to prolonged deficiency of vitamin b1 usually result of chronic alcoholism, destruction of areas in frontal and temporal lobes. Anterograde amnesia: loss of ability to assimilate or retain new knowledge. He has forgotten much of his past and was unable to form new long-term memories. Most detail and often specific memories fade with the passage of time and as other experiences accumulate. Retaining information about past= important characteristic of ltm. During a conversation: working memory holds exact wording of statement in him while simultaneously accessing meaning of words from ltm, ltm helps understand meaning of each word that makes up the sentence. Although we may not consciously think about all info we knows, it is in the.