Week 5 Flashcards
1
Q
Retrograde amnesia
A
Loss of memories from our past
(typically from recent past)
2
Q
Anterograde Amnesia
A
Inability to form new memories from our experiences
3
Q
Patient H.M takeaway
A
- Hippocampus is crucial for storage of feelings or thoughts
- Declaritive memory is located in a different area than procedural memory
4
Q
Consolidation
A
A process incolving the slow conversion of info into long term storage
5
Q
What is amygdala associated with
A
Emotions
6
Q
Alzheimers
A
A degenerative brain disease
7
Q
Infantile amnesia
A
Inability of adults to remember personal experiences that took place before an early age
8
Q
Flashbulb memories
A
- Emotionally intense events
- Due to rehearsal of memories inconsistencies were created
- basic aspects of memory are accurate but vivid details likely arent
9
Q
Cryptomnesia
A
Failure to recognize that our ideas originated with someone else
10
Q
Misinformation Effect
A
Creation of fake memories by giving false information of an event after it took place
