Psych 115 Week Nine Test Questions and Correct Answers
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Course
PSYC 115
Institution
PSYC 115
Learning the process of acquiring new info
Memory the ability to store and retrieve info -specific info stored in the brain
Patient H.M. underwent bilateral medial temporal-lobe resection to help decrease epileptic seizures Consequence: became severely amnesic -amygdala was mostly removed -most o...
Psych 115 Week Nine Test Questions
and Correct Answers
Learning ✅the process of acquiring new info
Memory ✅the ability to store and retrieve info
-specific info stored in the brain
Patient H.M. ✅underwent bilateral medial temporal-lobe resection to help decrease
epileptic seizures
Consequence: became severely amnesic
-amygdala was mostly removed
-most of the anterior hippocampus was removed, some posterior spared
-the entorhinal cortex was completely removed resulting in severe disconnection of the
hippocampal tissue
-revealed that memory is not a unitary process
Patient H.M. cognitive impairments ✅severe anterograde amnesia: could not form any
new lasting memories, constant feeling of waking up from a dream
Extensive retrograde amnesia: impaired temporally graded memory of the past
Dampened expression of emotions and impaired at reporting internal states such as
pain, hunger and thirst
Retrograde amnesia ✅the loss of memories formed before onset of amnesia and is not
uncommon after brain trauma
-new memories can still be created
-can be temporally graded, meaning don't remember a few years prior to the accident
but can recall childhood
Anterograde amnesia ✅the loss of the ability to create new memories after the event
that caused amnesia, while memories from before the event remain intact
Declarative memory ✅deals with what, things we are aware we learned
-facts and info acquired through learning that can be stated or described
Non-declarative (procedural) memory ✅deals with how, shown by performance rather
than conscious recollection
Semantic memory ✅type of declarative memory
Generalized memory, facts
Ex: remembering your home address or who the president of the US is
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