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Unit 3: How does experience affect behaviour and mental processes?
Quick questions on Alzheimer's disease and aphantasia: VCE Psychology Unit 3
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What is alzheimer's disease?Show answer
Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disease, meaning it involves the progressive death of neurons and loss of brain tissue. It is the most common cause of dementia, a broad decline in cognitive functioning severe enough to interfere with daily life.
What is aphantasia?Show answer
Aphantasia is the inability to voluntarily generate mental images in the mind's eye. A person with aphantasia, asked to picture a beach, cannot conjure a visual image, though they still know all the facts about a beach. It is not a memory disorder in the sense of forgetting; the information is retained, but it cannot be experienced as imagery.
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