PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Anterograde Amnesia, Thalamus, Episodic Memory
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Your friend believes that babies are able to learn language because the inherent structure of language is preprogrammed into our minds. You recommend to friend that she should read work by. _______, as they think similarly: aristotle, john locke, watson, plato, none of the above, answer: 4, plato: people are born with certain abilities, aristotle: gain knowledge by experience. Stm vs. ltm: stm exists for 18-20 seconds, k. f. could recall memory before accident, but everything past that he couldn"t remember, keeping in mind ltm can be anything from motor, semantic, emotional. Types of ltm: henry molaison, or h. m, h. m. had his medial temporal lobe removed bilaterally at age 27 to treat epilepsy. Episodic and semantic memory: non-declarative: is usually accessed without awareness (implicit) and cannot be reported, ex. riding a bike. Asked to then date it: wj relied on memories di erent than control group, she relied on earlier memories.
