PSYC 370 Chapter 11: PSYCchapter11

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 370
• Professor: Monica Valsangkar- Smyth

Document Summary

Formal assessment of hm"s anterograde amnesia discovery of unconscious memories: Five tests were used to assess his memory the first two documented severe deficits in where the last three his brain was capable of storing long-term memories the weirdness of them. 25 trials he could not repeat the 8th digit sequence while most people can correctly repeat about 15 digits after 25 trials. Block tapping memory span test, he had global amnesia which is amnesia for information presented in all sensory modalities. Incomplete pictures test, this is a test of 5 sets of fragmented drawings. Pavlovian conditioning, he learns the eye blink task. Three major scientific contributions of hm"s case: first by showing that the medial temporal lobes play an important role in memory. Third his case was the first to reveal that an amnesic patient might claim no recollection of a previous experience while demonstrating memory performance.