Outline the four memory systems discussed in the lecture. Relate each of the memory systems to Clive's case and give examples of each memory system.
1. Sensory Register
a. Clive only knows what is happening in that exact moment, everything else that has happened before he forgets. Even as he is talking he forgets what he said in the sentence before. If he were to be able to hold on to the moments that happened right before he would have a better sensory register memory system.
b. Other examples of how sensory register is being able to recall something that happened a split second before. So while taking notes in class a student uses sensory register to listen to the professor and write down what he or she is saying a second later.
2. Short term memory
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Clive does not recall events that happened from even five minutes before. Such as in his journal he writes down activities and thoughts he has completed, but when he looks at the paper five minutes later he does not recall writing it at all.
b. Short term memory is being able to hold on to information for about thirty seconds and then to recall what was just said. So someone is told a telephone number and is able to say the numbers right after it was said to them, is an example of short term memory.
3. Working memory
a. While Clive’s memory does not last long he is able to comprehend written and spoken language, so his memory is able to work through it. Though it is assumed if he were to work on a problem for too long he would keep forgetting the work he has already completed. So for Clive, his working memory cannot last for long problems but for short things such as reading or writing a short sentence down he can do it.
b. Working memory is also used while people play videogames, they have to recall on a combinations of buttons that will help their character in a game, if they do not do so within a few seconds then that may cost them the game.
4. Long term
Holmes and Gethercole (2013) found that children’s performance was impacted by a poor working memory. On the other hand, Haughey (2002) discovered that those with high levels of phonological working memory had more vocabulary knowledge when compared to those with low levels of phonological working memory. This suggests that a constant repetition may help children to grasp on the English language faster and also that with the two slave systems in working memory, it is the phonological loop which is responsible for holding verbal information (Baddeley, 2002).
Therefore, they summarize that the reason why Clive suffers in the Amnesia is caused by the hippocampus is not affected. The Hippocampus is a structure that is located inside the temporal lobe, and that is a part of the limbic system. The function of the Hippocampus is similar to a post office used for encoding, storage and recalling memories, all presenting information would first remain, analysed and encoded in the Hippocampus then transmit them to different areas of the brain. In other words, Clive is unable to encode memory and hold information which is currently aware, and it is difficult to form new long-term memory such as explicit and semantic memory. Clive Wearing, now 78 years old, still cannot recover from the anterograde amnesia, he becomes a man who has the shortest memory in the world.
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