Lesson 8: LTM/Implicit Memory

Question 1

Implicit Memory/Nondeclarative

Answer 1

Cannot be verbally reported

Question 2

Procedural Memory

Answer 2

From extensive and repeated experience (serial RT and mirror tracing)
- Amnesics can learn but won’t remember doing task
- Parkinson/Huntington patients show impaired procedural

Question 3

Priming

Answer 3

Semantic: within a category - dog can prime word
Conceptual: hear something previously and asked later about something similar you are likely to repeat
Repetition: Improvements in a behavioral response when stimuli is repeatedly presented
Perceptual: Better able to fill in word fragments for words you’ve seen before
- normal for amnesics

Question 4

Real-Life Priming (Perfect and Askew)

Answer 4

People who deliberately tried to memorize ads did better. Things you’ve seen before being rated as more appealing as it is more familiar

Question 5

Classical Conditioning

Answer 5

Pair neutral stimulus (conditioned) with stimulus that elicits natural stimulus reaction (unconditioned). Now neutral stimulus elicits natural response.

Question 6

Habituation

Answer 6

With repeated exposure to something, you have less of a reaction to it (on boat after while, don’t feel motion)

Question 7

Sensitization

Answer 7

Becoming more responsive to a stimulus after being exposed to it for a long time (pen clicking driving you crazy after 20th time)