Transcript chapter 3a

Memory
Monday
Please put all of last week’s
bell work for marking?
Memory
Tuesday
How do you remember
things?
Memory
Wednesday
What is Retrograde
amniesa?
Memory
Thursday
What is antrograde
amniesa?
Memory
Friday
Please put your Bell Work
on your desk for marking?
Memory
• Memory
– The capacity to acquire, retain and recall
knowledge and skills.
– Remembering how yo speak a language,
your 1st day of school and where your
locker is located are all different types of
memory
Memory Diagram
Sensory Memory
• This type of memory recieve
information from the environment
through the senses; sight, hearing,
smell, taste and touch.
• Please make a list of 10 things that
reside in you sensory memory.
Short-term Memory
• If the information catches your
attention an you think it is important, it
may be transferred to short-term
memory.
• Short-term memory holds information
for up to 15 or 20 seconds. If you work
at it the information will stay longer.
Short-Term Memory
• Short term memory can hold
information either + or – 7 items
• The most common way that
information reaches your short term is
through sound.
Long- Term Memory
• Long-term memory has no limit
• Information will travel from short term
memory to long term memory only if
episodic or rehersed.
Please make list of 10 things
that reside in you long term
memory
What effects the process of
memory?
Retrograde Amnesia
• Retrograde amnesia is a form
of amnesia where someone will be
unable to recall events that occurred
before the development of amnesia
(hollywood)
Antrograde Amnesia
• Sadly, one of the most famous people
in the history of psychology died last
Tuesday at the age of 82. Henry
Molaison, better known as H.M. died
of respiratory failure at the nursing
home where he was being cared for.
H.M. famously had surgery to reduce
epileptic seizures; however, removal
of his hippocampi resulted in him
being unable to form new memories.