Influencing Memory 2

Question 1

Why is electrical stimulation done?

Answer 1

to determine any deficits resulting from disruption to the brain region that is a candidate to be removed

Question 2

What are 3 things that stimulation of various cortical regions evoke?

Answer 2

• various modality-specific sensations
• selective motor movements
• selective language disruptions

Question 3

What are 3 types of memory phenomenas?

Answer 3

• amnesia
• elicitation of memories (memories)
• deja vu (feeling of familiarity)

Question 4

What is recollection?

Answer 4

involving retrieval of specific contextual or related details associated with specific episode

Question 5

What is familiarity?

Answer 5

feeling of recognition for a particular item without accompanying associated episodic details or any specific context

Question 6

What does hippocampal amnesia impair?

Answer 6

all manner of relations (Recollection)

Question 7

What does large MTL damage impair?

Answer 7

memory for items (familiarity)

Question 8

What can hypnosis do to early memories?

Answer 8

it can produce subjects to recall accounts of their first few months even though those events did not occur & there is no capacity to remember early infancy

Question 9

How can we know if our memories are true?

Answer 9

• by external corroboration

Question 10

What is the george franklin case?

Answer 10

• his daughter confessed that he raped and killed her bestfriend
• but in reality it was a false memory