Exam 2

Question 1

What are the seven (7) “SINS” of memory?

Answer 1

Different types of forgetting: transience, absent-mindedness, blocking
Pathological Remembrances: Persistence
Distortions of inaccuracy: Misattribution, suggestibility, bias.

Question 2

What is “absent-mindedness”?

Answer 2

Absent-mindedness occurs when insuffient attention is applied to a stimulus at the time of encoding or retrieval and usually occurs with automatic actons. Common of everyday activity; (ie. forgetting where you put your keys or parked)

Question 3

What is Visual Agnosia?

Answer 3

The impairment of visual object recognition despite otherwise preserve visual abilities, historically divided into tow forms: Apperceptive and Associative.

Question 4

What is apperceptive agnosia?

Answer 4

Object recognition impairment because of deficits in perceptual processing. Gollin picture test reveals that apperceptive agnostics require more complete drawings to recognize an object. People with apperceptive agnosia will have trouble copying accurately.

Question 5

What is associative agnosia?

Answer 5

Perceptual processes essentially intact, but object recognition is impaired partly or mainly because of difficulties in accessing relevant knowledge about objects from memory. Unlike apperceptive agnoics, these patients can copy objects they cannot recognize.