Memory and forgetting L5

Question 1

3 main elements of memory

Answer 1

sensory store
short term store
long term store

Question 2

where are sensory stores kept

Answer 2

visual neurones

Question 3

what are short term stores

Answer 3

need to keep thinking about it to remember

Question 4

what is retrieval failure in LTM

Answer 4

information still held but can’t be retrieved

Question 5

what can make retrieving a memory harder

Answer 5

interference from other similar memories

Question 6

sematic encoding=

Answer 6

meaning of a word/ does it fit it sentence

Question 7

physical encoding

Answer 7

e.g capitals

Question 8

acoustic encoding

Answer 8

rhyme

Question 9

what is context dependancy

Answer 9

the environmental conditions where you learn makes a difference to how well you remember it

Question 10

what is state dependancy

Answer 10

you can recall information better when you feel the same as when you learnt it

Question 11

two long term memory stores=

Answer 11

hippocampus

anterior temporal lobe

Question 12

what is damaged in sematic dementia

Answer 12

anterior temporal lobe

Question 13

where is episodic memory found

Answer 13

hippocampus

Question 14

what is episodic memory

Answer 14

unique experiences of people/place/object

Question 15

what is sematic memory

Answer 15

similarities between memories to create concepts

Question 16

where is sematic memory stored

Answer 16

anterior temporal lobe

Question 17

what is important for memory consolidation

Answer 17

slow wave sleep

Question 18

how is episodic memory encoded in the hippocampus

Answer 18

neurones in the hippocampus bind together things in memory to re-instate the full picture of the memory

Question 19

how is memory retrieved in the hippocampus

Answer 19

one element of a story is a clue

Question 20

what is Korsakofts syndrome?

Answer 20

long term alcohol causing memory issues

Question 21

what is the only part of memory affected in hippocampus or medial temporal lobe lesions

Answer 21

Episodic

Question 22

what is preserved in amnesia

Answer 22

non-declarative memory

sematic information

Question 23

after a head injury what is memory like

Answer 23

poor retrieval of events just prior to event

normal retrieval of events from childhood

Question 24

over time what happens to memories

Answer 24

become more reliant on neocortex and less dependant on hippocampus

Question 25

where is place stored

Answer 25

in parahippocampal area

Question 26

where is object stored

Answer 26

in inferior temporal cortex

Question 27

where is people stored

Answer 27

in anterior temporal lobes

Question 28

what is sematic dementia a subtype of

Answer 28

frontotemporal dementia

Question 29

what do you lose in sematic dementia

Answer 29

factual knowledge

Question 30

what remains intact in sematic dementia

Answer 30

memory for recent events
language
visual-spatial skills
non-verbal reasoning

Question 31

what is the reverse temporal gradient in sematic dementia

Answer 31

remember recent events but not childhood