COGNITIVE patient HM and case studies Flashcards

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Patient HM

What happened to Patient HM

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had surgery and got amnesia

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patient HM

what parts of the brain were damaged

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Hippocampus (removed) and temporal lobe

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patient HM

what was patient HM unable to do

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form new LTM - hippocampus believed to moving STM to LTM but could remember epsiodic memories from before

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patient HM

what could patient HM still do

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procedural skills (but forgot them within a day) and working memory

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patient HM

how old was he and when did he have surgery

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26 (1953)

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case studies

what is a case study

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research carried out on an individual/ small group over a long period of time

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case studies

what data do case studies collect

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quantitative and qualitative

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case studies

examples of how to get quantitative data for brain damaged patients

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IQ tests , memory tests, closed questions, brain scans

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case studies and patient HM

positive evaluation points

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  • avoids ethical issues of invasive investigation
  • credibile - ultilises neuroimaging techniques (objective data)
  • concurrent validity - collects large amount of data with several techniques
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case studies and patient HM

negative evaluation points

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  • cause and effect - only study patient after damage - don’t know what he was like before
  • low validity - neuroimaging may not pick up smaller sites of damage - e.g. mild traumatic brain injury
  • population validity - unique cases - might not be generaisable to other brain damaged patients
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