Kinesiology 1080A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Retrograde Amnesia, Frontal Lobe, Neocortex

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 1080A/B
• Professor: Matthew Heath

Document Summary

Memory: the capacity of individuals to retain and utilize information in various ways for various periods of time : acquisition, retention, retrieval. The 3 memory systems: short-term sensory store memory, short-term memory, long-term memory, short-term sensory store (stss) Veridical: like taking a picture of your environment, absolute representation of what you saw. Pre-categorical: no conscious attachment to it. Whole report technique participants had <10% recall accuracy on a matrix identification task. Information can be reliably maintained in the sensory store for max. Kaden vanhelden: proves the existence of a short-term sensory store. Works for only 300ms: they can recall any row of the matrix as long as the tone was given within. Second sperling task ellipse experiment: when an ellipse is used to mark the letters to be recalled, the new information. Erases what was seen in that snapshot in the stss (ellipse replaces the letters that were there in the mental picture)