Exam 2: Memory

Question 1

Cognition =

Answer 1

memory = intelligence

Question 2

Sensory memory

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brief, modality-specific store of info received by sensory receptors

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types of working memory

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phonological loop
visuospatial sketchpad
episodic buffer

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working memory

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central executive
dynamic, short-term limited capacity buffer that enables storing of info briefly and actively manipulating it while it is being processed

Question 5

phonological loop

Answer 5

engaged with repeating a telephone number before dialing

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visuospatial sketchpad

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stores visual and spatial info briefly (shapes, colors, building routes)

Question 7

episodic buffer

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connects info across domains (verbal, visual, spatial) and helps chronologically order info

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declarative/explicit memory

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“knows that”
comprises the facts we know through learning
these facts can be “declared”

Question 9

3 types of declarative/explicit memory

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lexical
episodic
semantic

Question 10

events

Answer 10

episodic memory

Question 11

episodic memory

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semantic memory + context
autobiographical memory; enables use to travel back in time; allows conscious recollection of specific episodes

Question 12

place + time

Answer 12

episodic memory

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concepts

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semantic memory

Question 14

semantic memory

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generic memory; conceptual knowledge; an associative network

Question 15

connect everything by meaning

Answer 15

semantic memory

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words

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lexical memory

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lexical memory

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word memory; organized by sound and meaning; associative network; not haphazardly organized

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subjective experience: known

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semantic

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subjective experience: remembered

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episodic

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organization: symbolically by meaning

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semantic

Question 21

organization: temporal & spatial

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episodic

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vulnerability to forgetting: less vulnerable

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semantic

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vulnerability to forgetting:

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episodic

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retrieval: context independent

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semantic

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retrieval: context dependent

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episodic

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“knows that”

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declarative/explicit memory

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“knows how”

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nondeclarative/implicit memory

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nondeclarative/implicit memory

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“knows how”

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habits

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nondeclarative/implicit memory
well=rehearsed, almost unconscious, behavioral routines

Question 30

tying shoes, driving, typing, brushing teeth

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nondeclarative/implicit memory

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types of nondeclarative/implicit memory

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habits
procedural memory
priming
conditioned responses

Question 32

procedural memory

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facilitates learning of motor tasks and procedures and developing cognitive skills by repeatedly performing them

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priming

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implicit or unconscious enhanced ability to detect, identify, or respond to a stimulus after recent exposure to it or a related stimulus

Question 34

fire alarms, gas leaks

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priming

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conditioned behaviors

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behaviors that are automatically produced in response to a particular set of stimuli

Question 36

smells, music, dances

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conditioned behaviors

Question 37

AD results in: impaired ______

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working and episodic memory but relatively spared nondeclarative memory

Question 38

Huntington’s or Parkinson’s diseases related to dementias result in severe

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procedural memory and motor skills learning impairments but less impaired episodic memory

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ideation

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activation of a concept within semantic and working memory systems

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translation of concepts into words

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activation of words in lexical and working memory systems

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production of words

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activation of procedural memory

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comprehension

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activation of concept in listener’s semantic and working memory systems

Question 43

relation of linguistic communication & memory

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production of words
ideation
comprehension
translation of concept into words