Memory Part 4 Flashcards
Loss of memory for events that occured before the onset of amnesia
Retrograde Amnesia
Typical of people who suffered a blow to the head
Retrograde Amnesia
Inability to form new long term memories due to destruction or damage to the hippocampus
Anterograde Amnesia
Sudden travel away from memory typical of people under extreme stress
Fugue
Vitamin B deficiency results in loss of memory
Korsakoff’s Disease
Alcoholics often suffer from this
Korsakoff’s Disease
Mental illness that occur due to the repression of traumatic events (young abuse females) causing the mind to create alter personalities
DID
Integration of the personalities
DID
Freud’s theory of forgetting claiming that we push painful, embarrassing, or threatening memories out of consciousness
Repression
Progressive brain disorder caused by deterioration of neurons that produce ACH and is characterized by gradual loss of memory
Alzheimer’s Disease
States the number of bits of information that can be held in the STM
Magic Number +7-2
Initial rapid decline of information then what remains will be remember for a long time
Forgetting Curve
Physical changes in nerve cells or brain activity that occur when memories are stored and remembered because the more you remember it, the stronger the memory trace
Trace Decay Theory
Only memorizing or learning at a superficial level
Shallow Processing
Elaborative Rehearsal along with meaningful analysis of the ideas and words being learned
Deep Processing
