13.1 Flashcards
What is learning?
The process of acquiring new information
What is memory?
The ability to store and retrieve that information
What is Amnesia?
A severe impairment of memory, usually as a result of accident or disease
What is Retrograde amnesia?
Loss of memories formed before an event (ex.surgery or trauma)
What is Anterograde Amnesia?
The inability to form new memories after an event- patients with this type of memory are good with verbal tasks such as learning to read mirror-reversed text
What is memory deficit caused by?
The loss of medial temporal lobe,including the hippocampus
What are the two categories of long-term memory?
Declarative and Non-declarative memory (procedural)
What is Declarative memory?
facts and information acquired through learning that can be stated or described; used to answer the W’s
What is Nondeclarative (procedural memory)?
Memory shown by performance rather than recollection; used to answer how and often nonverbal; ex. Riding a bike
What is delayed non-matching-to sample task?
A test of object recognition memory that requires monkeys to declare what they remember; monkeys must identify what was not seen previously; medial temporal lobe damage causes impairment on this task
What is Korsakoof’s syndrome?
a degenerative disease in which damage is found in the mammillary bodies and dorsomedial thalamus and frontal cortex, due to a lack of thiamine(seen in chronic alcoholism)
What do people with Korsakoff’s syndrome tend to do?
Confabulate
What is Confabulate?
When people fill in a gap in the memory with a falsification
What is Semantic memory?
Generalized declarative memory (intact); such as knowing the meaning of a word without knowing where or when you learned that word
What is Episodic memory?
Detailed autobiographical memory(loss); when you recall a specific episode in your life or relate an event to a particular time and place.
