Tutorial 7: Memory

Question 1

Retrograde amnesia

Answer 1

Inability to remember the past

Question 2

Anterograde amnesia

Answer 2

Inability to form new memories

Question 3

Maintenance rehearsal

Answer 3

Rote repetition - keeping things in mind

Question 4

Elaborative rehearsal

Answer 4

Proposed by Craik and Lockhart (1972) in their levels of Processing model of memory.

• Deep semantic processing of a to-be remembered item resulting in the production of durable memories

Example of elaboration: Method of Loci - thinking of images that link the information with familiar locations

• The key is to create the most striking visual images possible, the more creative the greater the chance of success

Question 5

Brain injury + memory

Answer 5

Clive Wearing: A patient that had viral encephalitis = left and right hippocampal damage

• Extreme case of amnesia: both retrograde (remembers little before the illness) and anterograde (inability to form new memories after illness