PY4 - Disorders of memory essay 0.0 / 5 ? PsychologyMemoryA2/A-levelWJEC Created by: aimeelou96Created on: 06-06-14 16:11 Clarke and Levinger Found that repression results in information being pushed into the unconscious mind 1 of 10 Williams Found over one third of ppts did not show any recall for their earlier sexual abuse. So memories of pain or sadness can be forgotten 2 of 10 Kilhstrom Dissociative amnesia and fugue are very rare and stress may not work in the same way as it normally would. 3 of 10 Loftus Weapon effect - stress can lead to poorer memory. 4 of 10 Selkoe Plaques form before symptoms of Alzheimer's. Progressive damage can cause the cerebral cortex to become damaged. 5 of 10 Bernston et al Damage to basal forebrain is involved in attention and alertness problems of Alzheimer's. 6 of 10 Cleary et al Injecting rats with B Amyloid 42 disrupts their memory - cannot generalise to humans as this was an animal experiment. 7 of 10 Silverman et al Increased risk of Alzheimer's in first degree relatives. 8 of 10 Bergen et al Concordance rates of Alzheimer's higher for MZ's than DZ's - suggests Alzheimer's is genetic. 9 of 10 St George Hilsop Found the influence of genes may be small as half of all Alzheimer's patients have no known relatives with Alzheimer's. 10 of 10
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