Cognitive Psychology - The Case Study of HM
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What is the case study of Henry Molaison?
What was the aim of the case study of Henry Molaison?
What was the procedure of the Henry Molaison case study?
- Observation
- Interviews
- Experimental tasks
- Standardised IQ tests
- Standardised memory tests
- MRI scans, during lifetime and after death
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What are the results of the Henry Molaison case study?
- Memories up to the age of 16, 11 years before his surgery, were intact but he was unable to encode temporary, short term memory into stable, long term memory. Example: forgot daily events, underestimated age, impaired recognition of faces.
- Had normal intelligence, normal perceptual functions, intact digit span, intact short term memory, intact procedural memory, intact sensory memory, intact spatial memory.
What are the conclusions of the Henry Molaison case study?
- Memory is a distinct cerebral function, separate from perception and cognition
- Medial temporal lobe is important for memory
- There is a distinction between short term memory and long term memory, digit span intact
- There is a distinction between declarative and non declarative memory, could acquire new motor skills but not new facts
What is the generalisability of the Henry Molaison case study?
- One person sample
- Male only sample
- Results may not apply to people without epilepsy
- Case study may be an anomaly, no point of comparison
What is the reliability of the Henry Molaison case study?
- Studied for 51 years
- Data mostly qualitative, (observations, interviews) so participants in replications of the study would not experience the data collection methods in the same way
What is the applicability of the Henry Molaison case study?
- Known to stay away from the hippocampus in brain surgeries
- Stems further research into the function of the hippocampus and how it is associated with memory
- Allows us to understand how memory is localised in the brain
- Gives insight into the experiences of people suffering from memory loss
What is the internal validity of the Henry Molaison case study?
- Quantitative and qualitative data, richly detailed understanding
However
- Case study, no control over extraneous variables
What is the ecological validity of the Henry Molaison case study?
- Experimental tasks, IQ tests, memory tests: not a natural environment
However
- Case study, studied in a natural setting through observation and interviews
What is the ethics of the Henry Molaison case study?
- Henry Molaison had no memory so he could not give consistently informed consent for any of the tests performed on him
- Never gave his permission for his brain to be preserved, nor were any of his closest relatives approached
- Lack of 'Protection of Participants' because he may have felt stressed by being asked to perform memory tasks
- Lack of the 'Right to Withdraw' because he would not remember if this were explained to him
- Lack of 'Debriefing' because he would not remember this
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