PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes -Anterograde Amnesia, Temporal Lobe, Retrograde Amnesia

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Heather Jenkin

Document Summary

Module 26 forgetting, memory construction, and improving memory. Memories are unpredictable and they frustrate us when we lose something yet we can remember our first kiss or other experiences such as that. For some memory loss is severe and permanent. anterograde amnesia: an inability to form new memories retrograde amnesia: an inability to retrieve information from one"s past. Much of what we sense we never notice, and what we fail encode, we will remember. Certain brain areas that jump into action when young adults encode new information become less responsive in older adults. You know what a penny like the colour and size is but you don"t actually know the detail on it. This is also because the detail is not meaningful nor are they essential for distinguishing them from the other coins. Even after encoding we may sometimes forget it later. An explanation for forgetting curves is gradual fading of the physical memory trace.