the brain

this is form the break down in transferring information.In every individual there contains numerous amounts of information and for this information to be effective I must be organized. This is long-term memory. Many people have argued the long-term memory is broken down into episodic or semantic memory. Episodic is other wise known as “autobiographical” memory. This is the memory that allows us to recall what we have done in our lives. It helps remember what was done yesterday. Episodic memory involves the recollection of a feeling of re-experiencing the event. This would involve some sort o f imaging in the brain. If a person was to ask to describe what there house looks like a picture would appear in the brain. This is episodic memory. Semantic memory is the store of general knowledge. This includes language and rules. Semantic memory can be used without reference to specific events. When someone speaks they don’t know where they originally learned language it is a natural process. When a breakdown in memory occurs that is where such disorders as agnostic disorder and dissociates disorder fit in.Brain damage can often cause defects in the brain. Agnostics have an inability to see objects and match them up with the objects name. A person may see a set of keys and have no idea what they are. Once touched however the subject knows what they are. The have not lost there long-term memory, but the ability to see an object and decide what it is. If you asked to describe a set of keys they could do it perfectly, but not be able to identify them. Another more serious disorder is Dissociative disorder, other wise known as multiple personality disorder. Multiple personality disorder is where a person has two or more personality’s controlling his mind. Only one personality can be present at once. Usually this disorder is a result of a traumatic childhood or experience. The person brain uses these pe...