Memory and Language-Lecture 9

Question 1

Psychogenic

Answer 1

• Failure to recall

- NOT due to medication, substances or a brain injury or illness

Question 2

Psychogenic amnesia

Answer 2

Usually retrograde

Can be associated with tramatic events, but not always

Question 3

Retrograde Amnesia

Answer 3

memory for a specific period in the immediate or extended past

Question 4

Dissociative Disorder

Answer 4

A Disintergration under a particular view of the mind

When automatisms split off, or dissociate, one aspect of the personality may not be aware of other aspects.

Question 5

Automatisms

Answer 5

A series of elementary structures that make up the mind
Each of these puts together cognition, motivation and emotion
Normally bound together into an intergrated personality under conscious control

Question 6

Psychogenic Fugue

Answer 6

A dissociative disorder

• sudden onset
• Loss of memory for one’s entire past
• loss of identity
• often flight or re-location to a different place
• may resolve within relatively short period (but may last longer)
• Memories of the past are recovered, but not necessarily of the period in the fugue state

Question 7

Psychogenic Amnesia

Answer 7

Loss of autobiographical memory for certain past experiences

Question 8

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Answer 8

Multiple Personality Disorder

Question 9

Ganser’s Syndrome

Answer 9

Characterized by vague or incorrect answers

Question 10

Depersonalization

Answer 10

Feeling of watching oneself act without control of the situation
Feeling that the self in unreal

Question 11

Derealization

Answer 11

Feeling that the world is unreal

Question 12

Repression

Answer 12

Freudian Concept-memories that are too painful/traumatic are actively kept from consciousness