5C the role of episodic and semantic memory in remembering and imagining

Question 1

semantic memory

Answer 1

type of explicit memory thats consists of general knowledge or facts

Question 2

episodic memory

Answer 2

type of explicit memory that consists of personal experiences or events

Question 3

autobiographical events

Answer 3

personally lived experiences

Question 4

retrieval

Answer 4

process of accessing information from our long term memory and bringing it to our conscious awareness in short term memory which is attended to and actively manipulated

Question 5

possible imagine futures

Answer 5

hypothetical experiences and situation that an individual has the ability to create and conceptualise in their mind

Question 6

neurodegneraitive disease

Answer 6

disease characterised by progressive loss of neurons in the brain

Question 7

alzeihmers disease

Answer 7

a neurodegenerative disease that involves the progressive loss of neurons in the brain and characterised by memory decline.

Question 8

post mortem examination

Answer 8

an assessment of a dead body that occurs to determine the cause of death

Question 9

lesions

Answer 9

an area of tissue that has been damaged due to disease or injury

Question 10

amyloid plaques

Answer 10

fragments of protein beta-amyloid that accumulates into insoluble plaques that inhibit communication between neurons

Question 11

neurofibrillary tangles

Answer 11

an accumulation of the protein tau that forms insoluble tangles within neurons.

Question 12

aphantasia

Answer 12

a phenomenon in which individuals lack the capacity to generate mental imagery