Chapter 9

Question 1

What is memory?

Answer 1

Memory is the group of mechanisms or processes by which experience shapes us, changing our brains and our behaviour

Question 2

What are the two types of amnesia

Answer 2

-Anterograde amnesia is the deficit in new learning, resulting in impairment in memory of information requiring after the onset of amnesia

-Retrograde amnesia is the impairment in memory of information that was acquired normally prior to the onset of amnesia, a deficit stretching back in time after the onset of amnesia

Question 3

What regions are damaged in Amnesia?

Answer 3

Amnesia occurs after the damage to the hippocampal region, or to midline diencephalic structures, such as the dorsomedial nucleus of the thalamus and the mammillary bodies of the hypothalamus