block 6 lecture 4

Question 1

what are the three kinds of memory stores?

Answer 1

1. sensory
2. short term
3. long term

Question 2

what is memory important for?

Answer 2

adaptive behaviour and self identity

Question 3

what system do you use to understand what you are seeing?

Answer 3

perceptual

Question 4

how does sensory memory work?

Answer 4

the perceptual system has a buffer so you maintain perceptual info for half a second

Question 5

how is information stored from the sensory memory?

Answer 5

you apply attention to it and repeat it

Question 6

what is short term memory?

Answer 6

allocating certain

Question 7

what is loss from short term memory from?

Answer 7

not allocating attention to that information

Question 8

why may it be difficult to retrieve long term memory?

Answer 8

memories can be similar so it is difficult to pick out certain information

Question 9

what is interferance?

Answer 9

not being able to pic out information because memories are too similar

Question 10

what does levels of processing refer to?

Answer 10

weather you use meaningful links to remember things

Question 11

how can you orientate memories?

Answer 11

physical appearance
acoustic sound
semantically

Question 12

what is context dependency?

Answer 12

return to the environment you formed and you have better recal

Question 13

what do you need to recall long term memories?

Answer 13

cue

Question 14

what is mood dependancy?

Answer 14

mood can act as a cue to recall memory

Question 15

why do you forget in short term memory?

Answer 15

information gets lost when you are distracted

Question 16

what is involuntary memories?

Answer 16

recovering memories you hadn’t intended to

Question 17

what are some common causes of amnesia?

Answer 17

viral infection
alcoholism
anoxia
head injury
alzheimers

Question 18

what does the hippocampus do?

Answer 18

forms connections and supports memories

Question 19

what structures are important for normal memory circutry?

Answer 19

parahippocampal cortex, fanix and mamillary bodies

Question 20

what is an implication of Alzheimers?

Answer 20

cant form new long term memories

Question 21

what is the evidence you don’t store long term memories in the hippocampus?

Answer 21

lesion in the hippocampus e.g. amnesia you still remember childhood memories

Question 22

what is intact in patients with amnesia?

Answer 22

motor learning

unconscious memory

Question 23

what type of memory is damaged with amnesia?

Answer 23

episodic

Question 24

what are the two types of long term memory?

Answer 24

declarative and non declarative

Question 25

what is the role of the hippocampus?

Answer 25

combining information to produce episodic memories

Question 26

what happens to memory in amnesia?

Answer 26

binding process is disrupted

Question 27

where does the hippocampus pass on memory to?

Answer 27

neocampus

Question 28

what is semantic dementia due to?

Answer 28

damage to the neocorticol store of memory (progressive)

Question 29

what is semantic dementia a sub type of?

Answer 29

frontotemporal dementia

Question 30

when is semantic dementia diagnosed?

Answer 30

50

Question 31

what are the consequences of semantic dementia?

Answer 31

difficulty understanding conversation

anomia

Question 32

what is anomia?

Answer 32

when someone cant think of the right word

Question 33

what area is affected in semantic dementia?

Answer 33

anterior termporal lobe

Question 34

what is spared in semantic dementia?

Answer 34

memory for recent events
phonology and syntax
visual-spacial skills
non-verbal reasoning

Question 35

what are the two long term memory?

Answer 35

hippocampus and anterior temporal lobes