6.5 - Forms of Long-Term Memory: More Than One Kind Flashcards
Explicit Memory
The act of consciously or intentionally retrieving past experiences
Implicit Memory
Influence of past experiences on later behaviour, even without an effort to remember them or an awareness of their recollection
Procedural Memory
Gradual acquisition of skills as a result of practice or “knowing how” to do things
Priming
Enhanced ability to think of a stimulus as a result of a recent exposure to the stimulus; less cortical activation (perceptual and conceptual priming)
Semantic Memory
Network of associated facts words items of knowledge, data, and concepts that make up our general knowledge of the world.
Episodic Memory
Collections of past personal experiences that occurred at a particular time and place
(Also involves mental time travel)
Collaborative Memory
How people share in groups
Sharing memories with others can strengthen them, but can also produce retrieval-inducing forgetting
Divergent Creative Thinking
Generating creative ideas by combining different types of information in new ways
How many uses can you come up with for a brick?
Similar to critical thinking/ abandoning preconceptions and using what you know to come up with something new
How does Episodic Memory relate to the imagining the future?
The hippocampus shows similarly increased activity when people remember the past and imagine the future
These two different mental states activate are associated with common brain networks
Which part of the brain plays an important role in the development of episodic memories?
Hippocampus; which is located in the medial temporal lobe
What type of memory do we rely on to envision potential futures?
Episodic
What part of the brain does Perceptual Priming involve?
Visual Cortex (back of brain)
What part of the brain does Conceptual Priming involve?
Frontal Lobes
Evidence suggests the Conceptual and Perceptual priming each correlate to which hemisphere’s of the brain?
Conceptual : Left
Perceptual : Right
