An individual, Patient JL, suffered brain damage following a stroke. Psychological testing revealed that while Patient JL had a digit span of only one item when numbers were read aloud to him, his memory for spatial patterns and visual designs was completely unaffected. Additionally, his long-term memory for events occurring after his stroke remained intact.
Explain two ways in which the case of Patient JL contributes to our understanding of human memory.
177 exam-style questions on Edexcel A Level Psychology Content, covering Working memory model, Multi-store model of memory, Episodic and semantic long-term memory, Reconstructive memory and schema theory, Individual differences in memory, and Developmental psychology in memory. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.