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What is impaired in amnesia? |
Verbal learning
Visual learning |
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What is preserved in amnesia? |
Short term memory
Knowledge of previously acquired facts
Implicit (non-conscious) memory |
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What does paired-associate learning test? |
Verbal learning |
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What does paired-associate learning involve? |
Participants learning pairs of words e.g. cat-boy, having a delay and then having to retrieve the pairs e.g. what went with cat? |
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How do people with amnesia find the paired-associate learning task? |
They do not remember studying any words |
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What does the Rey Figure copy test? |
Visual learning |
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How do people with amnesia find the Rey Figure copy test? |
They struggle and cannot attempt this task |
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What does the Rey Figure copy test involve? |
Participants are presented with an image and have to replicate it after a delay |
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Providing definitions, naming pictures, understanding sentences - what kind of memory is used for these tasks? |
Semantic |
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Short term and semantic memory are preserved in amnesia, what does this tell us? |
That the hippocampus must not be the final store of knowledge |
