chap 8: memory

Question 1

parallel distributed model

Answer 1

memories are similar to neurons, and have many connections

when can’t remember smth, think of related ideas to recover memory

Question 2

semantic encoding

Answer 2

encoding info based on meaning

Question 3

ebbinghaus

Answer 3

memorized nonsense syllabus, forgot most w/in 1/2 hour

Question 4

explicit memory

Answer 4

conscious memories

episodic: life events

semantic: facts i.e. laurier colours, today’s date

Question 5

implicit memories

Answer 5

learned behaviours, unconscious

priming: experience facilitates retrieval i.e. more easily scared after horror movie

classically conditioned: conditioned to respond to stimulus i.e. prejudice

procedural: motor skills i.e. typing

Question 6

proactive vs retroactive interference

Answer 6

retroactive: new info blocks old i.e. 2nd china trip

proactive: old info blocks new i.e. ex-gf name

Question 7

source misattributions

Answer 7

can’t remember source of info, don’t realize you weren’t there

Question 8

priming

Answer 8

helps w recognition tasks, not retrieval

Question 9

brain activity and memory

Answer 9

prefrontal cortex for LTM

hippocampus for integrating working to LTM

LT potentiation: repeatedly stimulating nerves inc likelihood of responding in future

memory consolidation: process where memories stabilize in brain thru potentiation

potentiation: synchronous firing of nerves tgt

Question 10

prospective vs retrospective memory

Answer 10

retrospective: remember past

prospective: remember future tasks

Question 11

hyperthymesia

Answer 11

remember detailed parts of entire life

Question 12

anterograde amnesia

Answer 12

can’t make new memories

Question 13

retrogade amnesia

Answer 13

forget past memories, but form new ones

Question 14

neurofibrillary tangles

Answer 14

twisted proteins w/in hippocampus and brain regions

Question 15

senile plaques

Answer 15

sphere-shaped proteins forming b/w cells of hippocampus and cerebral cortex