Chapter 10 Memory Disorders Flashcards

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And inability to form new memories following brain damage

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Anterograde amnesia

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Memory deficits acquired through brain damage

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Amnesia

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Area of the brain associated with learning and memory damage can cause anterograde amnesia

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Hippocampus

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A cortical area of the brain in the temporal lobe associated with learning and memory damage can cause anterograde amnesia

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Medial temporal lobe’s

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Subcortical region of the brain associated with learning damage can cause anterograde amnesia

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Mammillary bodies

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Specific impairment of including new information into both of episodic and systematic memory while most other kinds of functions remain intact

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Amnesiac syndrome

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The preserve ability to perform tasks that are influenced by the past event without being aware of event experience

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Implicit memory

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A participant is given some letters of the word but not all of them and must figure out the word

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WordFragment completion

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The effect of presenting to a stimulus on the later processing of the same stimulus amnesiacs show repetition priming even if they do not consciously recall the target

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Repetition priming

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The discussion we have with others about the past

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memory conversations

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Amnesiac describes a memory from before the injury as if it happened after

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Memory importation

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An amnesiac retrieves an event based on someone else’s repeated retelling of the event

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Memory appropriation

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Rather than trying to answer your question about the past an amnesiac talked about the issues that have arisen from amnesic syndrome

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Memory compensation

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Technique that uses the speared implicit memory of amnesiacs to help them learn new skills

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Method of vanishing cues

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Drugs that are used to relieve anxiety insomnia and muscle tension they are also Strong aamnesia inducing drugs. Especially within the episodic memory domain

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Benzodiazepines

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The failure to become aware of Cognitive of deficit

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When patients his ability to retrieve memories of events prior to Brain damage

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Retro grade amnesia

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Your memories will be more affected by retrograde amnesia than older memories

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A neurological process whereby memory traces or made permanent in the person’s long-term memory

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Consolidation

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An effective treatment for depression that involves delivering a strong electric shock to the head of the patient he creates. Of retrograde amnesia

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Electroconvulsive therapy

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Severe form of the mesial ball on by long-term alcoholism characterized by anterograde amnesia retro grade amnesia anisognosia and confabulation

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Korsakoffs disease

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The part of the brain that includes the thalamus and hypothalamus it serves as the important really point in the human memory circuit

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When amnesiac patients lie about their past. They do not know they are not telling the truth because of deficits in source monitoring

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Confabulation

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People often show retrograde amnesia and may show anterograde amnesia although the latter tends to be much less severe than in other patients they also show anosognosia and confabulation

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Frontal lobe Amnesia

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Deficits incorrectly attributing the source of a memory
Source amnesia
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A rare form of amnesia which the amnesic effects are short-lived usually on the order of hours
Transient global amnesia
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Deficit in the capacity of working memory
Short-term memory amnesia
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Condition caused by brain damage in which patients believe that places or locations have been duplicated and that the two locations exist simultaneously
Reduplicative paramnesia
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A condition caused by brain damage in which patients believe that other people have been duplicated in the two identical people may exist
Capgras syndrome
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All forms of amnesia that are not directly linked to disruption or injury to the brain
Psychogenic amnesia
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A condition in which only the Trumatic event or events closely related to the trauma or not remembered
Disassociative amnesia
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A psycho genic amnesia which the patient forgets his or her personal identity in addition to access to his or her autobiographical past
Disassociative fugue
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A psychological disorder that includes the inability to inhibit unwanted memories due to exposure to extremely dangerous or stressful situations
Posttraumatic stress disorder PTSD
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The active forgetting of highly emotional memories usually from childhood
Repression
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One of many dementia type illnesses that are more common in older adults than younger adults memory is the first deficit detected in this disease
Alzheimer's disease
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Masses of unnecessary proteins that interfere with normal brain function
AmyLoid plaques
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The twisting of Amyloid plaques around neurons which causes destruction of those neurons
Neurofibrillary tangles
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The interventions that clinical neuropsychologist used to promote improved memory performance in memory impaired individuals
Memory rehabilitation
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The trains a patient to learn a particular factor skill why preventing the person for making errors during the training
Errorless learning