PSYC 271 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Anterograde Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia, Mammillary Body

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 271
• Professor: Peter J Gagolewicz

Document Summary

We can learn a language by studying it, but to speak it we must retrieve the words we"ve learned. Short term memory: (working memory) less than 1 minute o. Long term memory: days, months, years o. Had both temporal lobes removed and had retrograde amnesia and anterograde amnesia. Retrograde: backwards acting: you can"t remember the past. Anterograde: forward acting: unable to form memories after that event. Digit span: repeat digits provided the time between learning and recall within the duration of stm. Block tapping memory span test: amnesia was global, not limited to one sensory modality. Improved with practice on sensorimotor tasks and a nonsensorimotor task without recalling previous practice sessions. Medial and temporal lobes are involved in memory. Stm, remote memory, and ltm are separate. Memory may exist but just not be recalled. Doing a skill where you"re improving but you have no memory of doing it before. Unconscious memories when he shows benefits of prior experience.