The Man without a Memory Paper
Christina Bacon, Annjuntoria Clements, Sereion Humphrey, Angela Thomas
Psych 575
May 26, 2015
Dr. Lynda Cable

The Man without a Memory Paper

How would you define the relationship between learning something and remembering it?
The author would define the relationship between learning and remembering such as preparing for a test or remembering the different signs when studying for a driver’s test. Sometimes when studying for that test a person can learn the material but might have a hard time remembering the information. If a person learns the information that needs to be learned for the test and retains the material, the person will remember what information they need for the test.
We also have to ask ourselves the question what is learning and memory?
Memories are the mental records that we maintain, which give us instant access to our personal past, complete with all of the facts that we know and the skills that we have cultivated (Wesson, 2012). When we are studying for a test we learn the material necessary to pass that test or to remember certain things that has happened in our lives. According to Wesson (2012) there are three different stages to learning and they are encoding, storage, and retrieval. There could also be a fourth stage which is forgetting. Clive Wearing has that fourth stage because he cannot remember his daughter’s name or when he wrote in his journal.

Preservation of Different Memory Types Anterograde amnesia describes the inability to learn new information. Retrograde amnesia describes the inability to recall memories prior to the damaging event. The hippocampus and adjacent regions in the temporal cortex are essentially involved in permanent memory storage—functioning to convert rehearsed short-term memories (STM) to long-term memories (LTM) in the normal brain. Extensive damage to