PSYC 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Implicit Memory, Implicit Learning, Explicit Memory

• School: University of Virginia
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2150
• Professor: Dan Willingham

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Overview: amnesiac patients can learn some things, explicit vs. Implicit memories: multiple memory systems, influences on non-amnesic patients. Amnesiac patients can learn some things: clive has anterograde amnesia (special case, anterograde vs. retrograde amnesia. Anterograde old memories mostly intact, but cant encode new memories. Retrograde old memories lost, but new memories encoded normally: hm also had anterograde amnesia after a surgery, what hm and other anterograde amnesia patients don"t learn: Rhythms: anterograde amnesic patients can learn motor skills. Gollin figures o o: given incomplete drawings and asked to guess what the image is, subject repeats the task and they are able to figure out the task with a more incomplete figure. Stem completion o: given list of words, at some time later stems given and subject asked to complete the word, words from the list used. Conclusion/significance: anterograde amnesia is memory minus encoding, some tasks don"t require encoding and therefore are learned.