chapter 7 Flashcards
The medial (or inner) surface of the temporal lobes that contains the hippocampus, the amygdala, and other structures important for memory
Medial Temporal Lobe
Memory for specific autobiographical events; it includes info about the spatial and temporal contexts in which the event occurred
Episodic Memory
Memory for facts or general knowledge about the world, including general personal information
Semantic Memory
A broad class of memories both semantic and episodic, that can typically be verbalized or explicitly communicated in some other way
Declarative Memory
A broad class of memory that includes skill memory and other types of learning that do not fall under the heading of episodic or semantic memory and that are not always consciously accessible or easy to verbalize
Non declarative Memory
A category of memory that includes semantic memory and episodic memory and consists of memories of which the person is aware; you know that you know the info
Explicit Memory
Memory that occurs without the learner’s awareness
Implicit Memory
The finding that, in general, deeper processing (such as thinking about semantic meaning of the word) leads to better recall of the information than shallow processing (such as thinking about the spelling or pronunciation of the word)
Levels-of-processing effect
The finding that, in general, memory retrieval is best when the cues available at testing are smilier to those available at encoding
Transfer-appropiate processing effect
A memory test that involves simply generating requested information from memory
free recall
A memory test that involves some kind of prompt or cue to aid recall
Cued recall
A memory test that involves picking out (or recognizing) a studied item from a set of options
Recognition
A procedure in which the subjects are first asked to learn info and later asked to remember or forget specific items; typically, memory is worse for items a subject was directed to forget
Directed Forgetting
Reduction in the strength of a memory due to overlap with the content of other memories
Interference
Disruption of new learning by previously stored info
Proactive interference
Disruption of old info by new learning
Retroactive Interference
Remembering info but being mistaken about the specific episode that is the source of that memory
Source monitoring error
Memory of an event that never actually happened
False memory
A length of time during which new episodic and semantic memories are vulnerable and easily lost or altered; each time a memory is recalled, it may become vulnerable again until it is “reconsolidated”
Consolidation period
The process whereby each time an old memory is recalled or reactivated, it may become vulnerable to modifications
Reconsolidating
Knowledge of, and ability to think about, our own memories, including both feeling of knowing and judgment of learning
Metamemory
Areas of cerebral cortex involved in processing sensory info such as sight and sounds
Sensory cortex
Areas if cerebral cortex involved in association info within and across sensory modalities
association cortex
A brain structure located in the medial temporal lobe that is important for new memory formation
Hippocampus
