Mod 32

Question 1

What lies within our explicit memory system?

Answer 1

1) Semantic memories
2) Episodic Memories
4) Hippocampus
3) Memory consolidation

Question 2

What are Semantic memories?

Answer 2

Memories of facts or general knowledge?

Question 3

What are Episodic Memories?

Answer 3

Memories of an experiences event

Question 4

What is memory consolidation? How does it play a role in explicit memories?

Answer 4

Its the brains process of stabilizing new and fragile memories into long term storage.
This process transitions them into the hippocampus, allowing for detailed recall.

Question 5

What role does the hippocampus play in explicit memories?

Answer 5

It forms, consolidates and retrieves explicit memories and then stores them in the long term area.

Question 6

What is involved in the Implicit Memory system? Explain all 3.

Answer 6

1) Cerebellum - allows automatic motor habits to form/function w/o a thought
2) Basal Ganglia - it forms and automates motor skills through repetition
3) Procedural Memories - responsible for our unconscious “how to” knowledge for skills and habits ex) riding a bike

Question 7

What is the amygdala role in memory and emotions?

Answer 7

It process emotions and tags memories with emotional significance. (flashbulb memories)

Question 8

What are flashbulb memories?

Answer 8

Clear memories of an emotionally significant moment.
(its like a flashbulb that wont go off even if it flickers)

Question 9

What is the long term potential role in memory and emotions?

Answer 9

It creates memories and stores emotional ones by strengthening synaptic connects between neurons that fire together.

Question 10

What are retrieval cues?

Answer 10

Stimuli/Hints that aid in the recall of information.
The higher the retrieval cue, the more we can find a suspended memory

Question 11

What is priming?

Answer 11

Exposure to one stimulus influences a response to a following stimulus unconsciously.
ex) seeing missing child makes us perceive adult/kid relationships more wearily than b4

Question 12

What is context dependent memory?

Answer 12

Being in a certain place evokes certain memories. Ex) studying in your room is an effective testing place

Question 13

What is the encoding specify principle?

Answer 13

memory retrieval is best when recall conditions (internal or external) match encoding conditions.

Question 14

What is state dependent memory?

Answer 14

what is learned in one state is easier to remember in said state

Question 15

What is mood congruent theory?

Answer 15

Our tendency to recall experiences through a certain mood

Question 16

What is the serial position effect?

Answer 16

the tendency to recall the best, last, and first items in a list