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Models of memory
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- 1What is the plot of Groundhog Day (1993)?'He's having the worst day of his life...over, and over..."
- Calls it de ja vu
- Uses the ability to win over a girl - 2What is the theory behind groundhog day?- Memory disfunction feels like life is repeating
- Present with people with depression - 3How does the theory relate to real psychological theory?- Moulin et al (2005) 2 cases of deja vu- patients AKP and MA
- Error of recollection rather than familiarity
(AKP had atrophy to the temporal lobes and hippocampus)
(MA had a diagnosis of AD) - 4What did Moulin et al (2005) find?- More judgement of remembering than controls
- patients had recollective experience
- Damage to fronto-temporal areas likely to be responsible - 5What is the plot of Fifty First dates (2004)?- Lucy has a car accident and loses short-term memory
- Guy falls in love with her
"Imagine having to win over the girl of your dreams... every friggin' day." - 6W- A man who had extensive damage to the left temporal lobe extending to the frontal lobe
- Describes is as like being dead - 7What is preserved in episodic memory?- Things such as language
- 8Describe Smith et al (2010) findings- Reported case of patient FL who suffered head trauma in 2005 exhibiting interesting patterns of amnesia
- Couldn't recall info day to day
- reasonable info retention on that day
- No obvious damage to the brain following the trauma - 9What did smith et al think FL's condition was influenced by?- Fifty first dates
- 10Whats the plot of eternal sunshine of the spotless mind?- a girlfriend has memories of Ex erased
- He finds out and does it too
- They fall in love again
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- undergraduate Psychology and the media Flashcards on Models of memory, created by polly arnold on 27/12/2015.
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