Your book (Introduction to Psychology Version 4.0 - By Charles Stangor and Sue Frantz)

and the documentary you watched last week talks about H.M., the most studied man in all of psychology. H.M.'s identity was protected while he was alive, but once he died, his real name was released to the public and we learned that H.M. (Henry Molaison) was from and lived in Connecticut! As you hopefully already know from the readings and the documentary you watched two weeks ago, H.M. had his hippocampus removed in an experimental procedure by a doctor at Hartford Hospital in the 1950s, where Dr. Scoville sucked out his hippocampus with a metal staw. Thankfully, brain surgery has come a long way since then.

What was the result of the removal of the hippocampus?

What explains why Henry could remember some types of information, but not others?

What type of amnesia does H.M. have?

On a side note, H.M. is a great example of how a case study is used to gather information about unique individuals. Having yourhippocampusliterally sucked out of your brain with a stainless steel straw is certainly a unique situation. Through this terrible surgery, society has learned a great deal about how memory works, and it's important to note that H.M. was a very happy man.