What is it?
What is it called when memory deficiency accrues through brain damage?
Amnesia
The inability to form new memories following brain damage.
Anterograde Amnesia
Who described the Method of vanishing cues?
Schacter (1996)
What is it called when a person with amnesia retrieves an event based on someone else's repeated retelling of the event?
Memory Appropriation
Specific impairment of encoding new information into both the episodic and semantic memory while most other cognitive functions remain intact.
Amnesia Syndrome
Who are the two people most associated with anterograde amnesia?
Patient H.M. and Clive Wearing
What is it called when, rather than trying to answer the question about the past, a person with amnesia talks about the issues that have arisen from amnesic syndrome?
Memory Compensation
When patients lose the ability to retrieve memories of events prior to brain damage
Retrograde Amnesia
What did patient D.J.T. show? and what was it due to?
Patient D.J.T. shows a tendency to make up stories instead of recalling actual events. It is due to frontal syndrome.
What is Anosognosia?
The failure to become aware of cognitive deficit.
A severe form of amnesia brought on by long term alcoholism
Korsakoff's Disease
Was the first to study short-term memory amnesia.
Shallice and Warrington (1970)
What is impaired in amnesic syndrome?
The ability to fluently retrieve words.
A condition caused by brain damage in which patients believe that other people have been duplicated and that two identical people might exsist.
Capgrass Syndrome
Who said that normal people make source memory errors as well, but they are much more common among patients with frontal lobe damage?
Shimamura (2008)