5B Brain Structures Involved in Memory

Question 1

Procedural Memory

Answer 1

A type of implicit memory that involves knowing how to carry out tasks that are facilitated by motor skills

Question 2

Episodic memory

Answer 2

A type of explicit memory that consists of personal experiences or events

Question 3

Semantic memory

Answer 3

A type of explicit memory that consists of general knowledge of facts

Question 4

Hippocampus

Answer 4

A brain structure that is primary involved in encoding explicit memory

Question 5

Amygdala

Answer 5

A brain structure that is primarily involved in encoding explicit memories

encodes emotional reactions
triggered by fear response

Question 6

Neocortex

Answer 6

A brain structure that stores explicit memories

Question 7

Basal ganglia

Answer 7

A brain structure that is involved in encoding and storing procedural memories and those that are associated with unconscious habits and behaviors.

Involved in storing classically conditioned responses

Question 8

Cerebellum

Answer 8

A brain structure that encodes and stores implicit procedural memories and those that are involve motor movement