Chapter 9 Flashcards
The active maintenance and manipulation of short-term memory
working memory
The manipulation and application of working memory for planning, task switching, attention, stimulus selection, and the inhibition of inappropriate reflexive behaviors
Cognitive Control
Brief, transient sensations of what has just been perceived when someone sees, hears, or tastes something
Sensory Memory
A temporary memory that is maintained through active rehearsal
Short-term Memory
Permanent or near-permanent storage of memory that lasts beyond a period of conscious attention
Long-term Memory
Nonpermanent memory that lasts seconds or minutes. Sensory memory and STM
Transient Memory
The initial temporary storage for info perceived by the visual system
Visual sensory memory
The component of working memory that holds visual and spatial images for manipulation
Visuospatial Sketchpad
An auditory memory maintained by internal speech rehearsal
Phonological loop
The component of working memory that monitors and manipulates the two working memory buffers
Central Executive
The tendency for a person to remember fewer words from a list as the length of the word increases
Word-length Effect
A test of visual memory in which a subject must indicate which of two novel objects is not the same as one that was recently seen
Delayed non match-to-sample task
The manipulation of working memory through the updating of stored info to facilitate goals, planning, task switching, stimulus selection, and response inhibition
Executive Control
The frontmost part of the frontal-lobe cortex, essential for working memory and executive control
Prefrontal cortex (PFC)
A disrupted ability to think and plan
Dysexecutive syndrome
A failure to learn new response, especially as demonstrated by continued adherence to an old, no longer valid response rule
Perseveration
The left and right sides of the topmost part of the PFC
Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
The lower left and right sides of the PFC
Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex
A nueoromoduator that alters neuron-to-neuron communication
dopamine
