[MND] Memory & Learning

Question 1

Which brain areas are involved in procedural learning?

Answer 1

Pre-frontal cortex
Motor cortex
Cerebellum
Basal ganglia

Question 2

Which brain areas are involved in declarative learning?

Answer 2

Hippocampus

Cortical regions

Question 3

What are some strategies to improve declarative learning?

Answer 3

• Repetition
• Developing associations with previous experience
• Organising information with acronyms

Question 4

Watching a person doing something and having to learn it in one go is a form of what kind of learning?

Answer 4

Procedural learning

Question 5

Facts, figures and a set of rules. This is part of what kind of learning?

Answer 5

Declarative learning

Question 6

What parts of the brain is associated with short term memory?

Answer 6

Hippocampus (declarative)
Prefrontal cortex (procedural)

Question 7

What parts of the brain is associated with long term memory?

Answer 7

Cortical Regions (declarative)

Motor Cortex
Cerebellum
Basal Ganglia
procedural

Question 8

Familiar Environment
Quiet place to increase attention
Reduction in secondary tasks
Are all ways to get out what?

Answer 8

Procedural information/memory