Amnesia

Question 1

What is retrograde and anterograde amnesia?

Answer 1

Retrograde: Old memories can’t be remembered
Anterograde: new memories can’t be remembered

Question 2

What is the STM and LTM deficits in amnesic patients?

Answer 2

Seems to have normal STM

LTM: Seems to have normal implicit memory, but impaired on explicit memory

Question 3

What are the criticism of the explicit memory deficit findings in amnesic patients?

Answer 3

• Some tests show normal explicit memory in patients
• Some tests show impaired implicit memory in patients

–> Is there a better description of amnesic patients?

Question 4

What is the main problem with previous research?

Answer 4

Different brain damages (frontal lobe, medial temporal, hippocampus) all treated the same - maybe there’s differences in memory performance due to differences in brain damage?

Question 5

What did Aggleton & Brown propose?

Answer 5

Hippocampal system - contextual recollection (remember)
Perirhnal system - familiarity (know)

How to test: Single case studies instead of all patients

Support: Limited for know effect, but shown in recollection