2.3: Procedural LTM

Question 1

Procedural memory (PM)

Answer 1

Procedural memory (PM) is a type of LTM for:

1. The performance of particular types of action
2. Our knowledge of how to do things

Question 2

Procedural memory (PM) is a type of LTM for the performance of particular types of action and our knowledge of how to do things.
This includes our memories of what?

Answer 2

This includes our memories of learned skills

Question 3

Procedural memory (PM) is a type of LTM for the performance of particular types of action and our knowledge of how to do things.
This includes our memories of learned skills.
Procedural memories are usually recalled how?

Answer 3

Procedural memories are usually recalled without making a:
1. Conscious
Or,
2. Deliberate
effort

Question 4

Procedural LTM is a type of what memory?

Answer 4

Procedural LTM is a type of implicit memory

Question 5

Procedural LTM is a type of implicit memory, permitting individuals to perform learned tasks with little what?

Answer 5

Procedural LTM is a type of implicit memory, permitting individuals to perform learned tasks with little conscious thought

Question 6

Procedural LTM is a type of implicit memory, permitting individuals to perform learned tasks with little conscious thought, for example what?

Answer 6

Procedural LTM is a type of implicit memory, permitting individuals to perform learned tasks with little conscious thought, for example riding a bike

Question 7

Procedural LTM is a type of implicit memory, permitting individuals to perform learned tasks with little conscious thought, for example riding a bike.
Many procedural LTMs occur when?

Answer 7

Many procedural LTMs occur early in life

Question 8

Procedural LTM is a type of implicit memory, permitting individuals to perform learned tasks with little conscious thought, for example riding a bike.
Many procedural LTMs occur early in life, involving what?

Answer 8

Many procedural LTMs occur early in life, involving the learning of important motor skills

Question 9

Procedural LTM is a type of implicit memory, permitting individuals to perform learned tasks with little conscious thought, for example riding a bike.
Many procedural LTMs occur early in life, involving the learning of important motor skills, like what?

Answer 9

Many procedural LTMs occur early in life, involving the learning of important motor skills, like:
1. Walking
2. Dressing
,ect

Question 10

Procedural LTM is a type of implicit memory, permitting individuals to perform learned tasks with little conscious thought, for example riding a bike.
Many procedural LTMs occur early in life, involving the learning of important motor skills, like walking, dressing, ect.
Procedural LTM is also involved in what?

Answer 10

Procedural LTM is also involved in language

Question 11

Procedural LTM is a type of implicit memory, permitting individuals to perform learned tasks with little conscious thought, for example riding a bike.
Many procedural LTMs occur early in life, involving the learning of important motor skills, like walking, dressing, ect.
Procedural LTM is also involved in language, helping individuals to do what?

Answer 11

Procedural LTM is also involved in language, helping individuals to speak automatically

Question 12

Procedural LTM is a type of implicit memory, permitting individuals to perform learned tasks with little conscious thought, for example riding a bike.
Many procedural LTMs occur early in life, involving the learning of important motor skills, like walking, dressing, ect.
Procedural LTM is also involved in language, helping individuals to speak automatically, using what without thinking how to?

Answer 12

Procedural LTM is also involved in language, helping individuals to speak automatically, using:
1. Grammar
2. Syntax
without thinking how to

Question 13

Procedural LTM is a type of implicit memory, permitting individuals to perform learned tasks with little conscious thought, for example riding a bike.
Many procedural LTMs occur early in life, involving the learning of important motor skills, like walking, dressing, ect.
Procedural LTM is also involved in language, helping individuals to speak automatically, using grammar and syntax without thinking how to.
What does this show?

Answer 13

This shows how:
1. Procedural
2. Semantic
memories work together

Question 14

Procedural LTM is a type of implicit memory, permitting individuals to perform learned tasks with little conscious thought, for example riding a bike.
Many procedural LTMs occur early in life, involving the learning of important motor skills, like walking, dressing, ect.
Procedural LTM is also involved in language, helping individuals to speak automatically, using grammar and syntax without thinking how to.
This shows how procedural and semantic memories work together.
As procedural memory doesn’t require conscious thought, it permits people to do what?

Answer 14

As procedural memory doesn’t require conscious thought, it permits people to simultaneously perform other cognitive tasks

Question 15

Procedural LTM is a type of implicit memory, permitting individuals to perform learned tasks with little conscious thought, for example riding a bike.
Many procedural LTMs occur early in life, involving the learning of important motor skills, like walking, dressing, ect.
Procedural LTM is also involved in language, helping individuals to speak automatically, using grammar and syntax without thinking how to.
This shows how procedural and semantic memories work together.
As procedural memory doesn’t require conscious thought, it permits people to simultaneously perform other cognitive tasks that what?

Answer 15

As procedural memory doesn’t require conscious thought, it permits people to simultaneously perform other cognitive tasks that require attention

Question 16

Procedural LTM is associated mainly with the what brain areas of what?

Answer 16

Procedural LTM is associated mainly with the neocortex brain areas of the:

1. Primary motor cortex
2. Cerebellum
3. Prefrontal cortex

Question 17

Procedural LTM is associated mainly with the neocortex brain areas of the primary motor cortex, cerebellum and prefrontal cortex and, unlike explicit forms of LTM, doesn’t need what to function?

Answer 17

Procedural LTM is associated mainly with the neocortex brain areas of the:
1. Primary motor cortex
2. Cerebellum
3. Prefrontal cortex
and, unlike explicit forms of LTM, doesn’t need the hippocampus to function

Question 18

A good example of procedural memory

Answer 18

A good example of procedural memory is driving a car

Question 19

A good example of procedural memory is driving a car.

Our ability to do this (eventually) depends on what?

Answer 19

Our ability to do this (eventually) depends on procedural memory

Question 20

A good example of procedural memory is driving a car.
Our ability to do this (eventually) depends on procedural memory.
Example

Answer 20

For example, we:

1. Change gear without having to recall how
2. Indicate left or right at a junction without even realising we’ve done so

Question 21

A good example of procedural memory is driving a car.
Our ability to do this (eventually) depends on procedural memory.
For example, we change gear without having to recall how and we indicate left or right at a junction without even realising we’ve done so.
These are the sorts of skills we might even find what?

Answer 21

These are the sorts of skills we might even find quite hard to explain to someone else

Question 22

A good example of procedural memory is driving a car.
Our ability to do this (eventually) depends on procedural memory.
For example, we change gear without having to recall how and we indicate left or right at a junction without even realising we’ve done so.
These are the sorts of skills we might even find quite hard to explain to someone else.
If you try to describe what you are doing as you do what, the task may well do what?

Answer 22

If you try to describe what you are doing as you drive the car, the task may well become more difficult