Unit 4 - Episodic and Semantic Memory

Question 1

Episodic Memory

Answer 1

allows you to access specific events located at a particular point in time “mental time travel”

Question 2

Semantic Memory

Answer 2

generalized knowledge of the world; may arise through the consolidation of numerous episodic memories; maintained as we age

Question 3

Anterograde amnesia

Answer 3

results in episodic impairments causing subjects to have trouble forming new semantic and episodic memories

Question 4

Retrograde amnesia

Answer 4

subjects have a selective deficit in either episodic or semantic memory from past or old memories

Question 5

Source memory

Answer 5

memory for where you heard/learned a piece of info

Question 6

Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test

Answer 6

an episodic memory task which tests a subjects ability to: Remember a new name -first and last; a belonging; an appointment; recognize pics etc

Question 7

RAVLT

Answer 7

an episodic task wherein subjects are asked to repeat the same list on 5 trials. Then given new list to repeat. Finally repeat original list. Less real world application and subjects can’t use environmental support when compared to Rivermead

Question 8

Associative Deficit Hypothesis

Answer 8

difficulty creating links between info as we age

Question 9

Context/content binding

Answer 9

the ability to connect what we’ve learned, or the content, to the environment, or the context, in which we learned it