Memory Flashcards
What is memory
A Process whereby what is experienced or learned
is established as a record in CNS (registration),
where it maintains information over periods of time
(retention) and can be recollected from storage
Types of memory
Immediate
Recent
Remote
Immediate memory
Sensory memory
Recall of perceived material within seconds to minutes
Recent memory
Short term memory
Recall of events over the past few days to months
Remote memory
Long term memory
Recall events in the distant past
Amnesia types
Anterograde amnesia
Retrograde amnesia
Total amnesia
Circumscribed amnesia
Anterograde amnesia
Inability to recall recent events
Retrograde amnesia
Inability to recall remote events
Total amnesia
Inability to recall recent and remote events
Circumscribed amnesia
Inability to recall events for limited time
Paramnesia types
Falsification
Confabulation
Deja vu
Jamais vu
Hypermnesia
Falsification
Memory becomes unintentionally (unconsciously) distorted by being filtered through a patient’s present emotional, cognitive, and experiential state.
Unconscious adding of false details to a true memory.
Confabulation
Unconscious filling of gaps in memory by imagined or untrue experiences that the patient believes but that have no basis in fact.
Most often associated with organic pathology.
Deja vu
An abnormal experience where an individual feels that a particular or unique event has happened before in exactly the same way.
Jamais vu
An abnormal experience where an individual feels that a routine or familiar event is experiences as novel or new.
Hypermnesia
Exaggerated degree of retention and recall.
It is excessive memory, the patient mentions even unnecessary details
Types of memory
Long term
Short term
Long term memory questions
•Where did you live when you were growing up?
•What was the name of the school you went to?
Short term memory questions
Give pt 3 word let the pt repeat the,
At the end of the interview ask what are the 3 words
Attention
The ability to focus on the matter on hand.
Direct our thinking and behaviours.
Concentration
The ability to sustain that focus.
Focusing to meet/reach our goals.
Distractibility
Giving attention to every passing stimulus
e.g. someone coughing, a door opened or a
bird flying.
Selective attention
Blocking only those things that generate anxiety.
The Serial 7’s Test – evaluating the concentration
The test is administered orally,
the client is asked to take 7 away from 100, to take 7 away from the
answer obtained, and so on.
The clients are placed at as much at ease as possible and encouragement is freely given, but no assistance.
Each subtraction is considered as a unit and calculations are made on the basis of the 14 possible correct subtractions, that is 93-86-79-72-65- 58-51-44-37-30-23-16-9-2
Many people with thought disorders cannot perform more than one or two calculations.
