Memory

What is anterograde amnesia?

inability to form new memories

nondeclarative (implicit) memory

type of long-term memory including memory for skills, procedures, habits, and conditioned responses. These memories are not conscious but are implied to exist because they affect conscious behavior

procedural memory

A type of long-term memory of how to perform different actions and skills. Essentially, it is the memory of how to do certain things.

declarative memory

It refers to memories which can be consciously recalled such as facts and events.

Short-term

Someone asks you what time it is. You check your watch and answer. A few seconds later, after you have been distracted, someone asks what time you said it was. You have forgotten. According to the traditional information-processing view, what type of memory was this?

semantic memory

When you remember how a clock works, what type of memory is that?

confabulation

confusion of an event that happened to someone else that happened to you, or a belief that you remember something when it never actually happened -leonard made himself believe hes sammy jankins

What is retrograde amnesia?

forgetting what happened before the accident happened

In "Memento", why does Leonard argue that his condition has no real impact on his ability to discover truth?

memories are reconstructive and unreliable

Primacy effect

remember items from the beginning

recency effect

remember items from the end

Research on implanted (false) memories suggest that

repeatedly suggesting that something "might have" occurred may implant or distort a memory