3.2.5 (5B) - brain structures

Question 1

Hippocampus

Answer 1

• ENCODES + consolidates EXPLICIT memories (semantic + episodic).
• AND retrieves episodic memories (not semantic).

Question 2

Amygdala

Answer 2

• ENCODES EMOTIONAL content in IMPLICIT + EXPLICIT memories.
• AND involved in CC’d EMOTIONAL responses (eg. fear).

Question 3

Neocortex

Answer 3

• LONG-TERM store of EXPLICIT memories.
• AND INTERACTS with the BASAL GANGLIA and CEREBELLUM to store IMPLICIT PROCEDURAL memories (du to primary motor cortex - skeletal muscles).

Question 4

Basal ganglia

Answer 4

• HABITUAL learning (growing accustomed to a situation of stimulus eg. clock ticking).
• Plays a role in IMPLICIT PROCEDURAL memory via interactions with the neocortex + the cerebellum.

Question 5

Cerebellum

Answer 5

• Plays a role in IMPLICIT PROCEDURAL memory via interactions with the neocortex + the basal ganglia.
• AND CC MOTOR RESPONSES/SIMPLE REFLEXES (eg. blinking to a puff of air).

Question 6

Explicit memories

Answer 6

With awareness
(semantic + episodic)

Question 7

Semantic memories

Answer 7

Facts/knowledge

Question 8

Episode memories

Answer 8

Personally experienced/autobiographical events

Question 9

Implicit memories

Answer 9

Without awareness
(procedural + classically conditioned).

Question 10

Procedural memories

Answer 10

‘How to’

Question 11

Classically conditioned memories

Answer 11

Fear or reflexes.