C5. P3

Question 1

What are some of the major changes to the multi store model of memory?

Answer 1

Some people can form long term memories without short term memories, emotional memories suggest that there is a way to deeply encode memories, and our ability to better understand stuff that is relative to us and in narrative form

Question 2

What are three thigs retained from the original multi store model?

Answer 2

-The sensory memory stores.
-The concept of the long-term memory store.
-The importance of effortful processing and rehearsal for forming explicit memories and retrieving explicit memories.

Question 3

What are the five things that changed the multi store model into the modified model of memory?

Answer 3

-Differentiates among multiple, relatively distinct memory systems.
-Assumes that there are various forms of retrieval (implicit and explicit).
​-Assumes that factors other than rehearsal (e.g., depth of processing; emotional nature) impact the ease with which things are learned and retrieved.
-Views the role of attention differently.
-Expands short-term memory store to the broader concept of working memory.

Question 4

Define expliciit memory.

Answer 4

Memory processes that are more conscious, are more under our control, and primarily involve memories that we can actively declare

Question 5

Define implicit memory.

Answer 5

The internalization of experiences without awareness that are later retrieved to influence our experience and refer to the process of prior information influencing our present experience without ones awareness of this influence

Question 6

What is episodic memory?

Answer 6

Memory for autobiographical events you have experienced

Question 7

What is semantic memory?

Answer 7

Word definitions and one’s understanding of concepts and facts

Question 8

Is serial organization part of episodic or semantic memory?

Answer 8

Episodic

Question 9

What are the three subtypes of implicit memory?

Answer 9

Procedural learning, automatic encoding, and implicit learning and retrieval

Question 10

What is procedural memory?

Answer 10

Muscle memory for performing tasks

Question 11

Who is Henry Molaison?

Answer 11

Lost hippocampus so he could not form new memories, but he could form procedural ones

Question 12

What is classical conditioning?

Answer 12

A is associated with B

Question 13

How did Pavlov’s dogs experience classical conditioning?

Answer 13

Repeated exposure to bell and food made the dogs start salivating when they heard the bell

Question 14

Which subtype of implicit memory is classical conditioning?

Answer 14

Implicit learning and retrieval

Question 15

What is implicit learning?

Answer 15

A form of implicit memory in which patterns, associations, and rules can be learned without awareness

Question 16

What was Reber’s artificial grammar approach?

Answer 16

People memorized several letters of strings that followed rules. They are shown a letter string again and asked if it follows the rules and to rate their confidence in percentage. Most participants could not explicitly identify the rules during debriefing. It concluded that they were implicitly learning even when they were not explicitly aware