May 2025 IB Psychology SL Paper 1

SSRIs: Seretonin re-uptake inhibitors

help with depression

Procedural memory

does not require conscious awareness; motor tasks

HM

a patient who underwent a bilateral temporal lobectomy, only had anterograde amnesia , still had episodic and procedural memory but not semantic memory (contradicting most amnesiacs), proved that short term memory is different from long term memory

Schemas

frameworks that assist in organization and interpretation of info

MRI

shows 3D structure, uses a magnetic field, good for soft tissues, but generally expensive

fMRI

highlights changes in blood flow and does not require radiation exposure, can be combined with other scanning methods, but cannot analyze individual nerve activity

Loftus and Palmer (1974)

car crash experiment