Memory

Memory

1. TYPES

   • Short Term
     • Memory stored for not more than a few seconds.
   • Long Term
     • Declarative/ explicit
       • Conscious recall Hippocampus
       • Semantic
         • see a big house with expensive car - conclude - wealthy owner
       • episodic
         • autobiographical information personally experienced events
     • non/declarative/procedural/Implicit
       • unconscious recall limbic system, amygdala
   • Sensory

2. Process of remembering - 4 parts

   • Registration
   • retention
   • retrieval
   • recall

3. Impairments

   • Amnesias
     • partial or total inability to recall past experiences or events
       • Psychogenic
         • Dissociative
           • forgets personal, but can do all work with personality intact
         • Katathymic
           • motivated forgetting. inability to recall sp. painful memories
       • Organic
   • Paraamnesias
     • distortions of recall
     • distortions of recognition