COGNITION: the mental process of acquiring and processing knowledge and understanding through thought, experience and the senses COGNITIVE PROCESS: perception, attention, language, memory and thinking PHYSIOLOGY: the way an organism functions
One interaction = amnesia AMNESIA: the condition in which people lose their ability to memorise/recall information
biological cause e.g. brain damage
affects cognition e.g. memory
in amnesia patients, episodic memories are affected more than semantic
EPISODIC: personal memory (personal to us) SEMANTIC: worldly knowledge (everyone knows it) ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA: inability to form new memories RETROGRADE AMNESIA: inability to recall old memories