chapter 2 - brain invloved in memory

Question 1

what role does the amygdala have in memory

Answer 1

forms LTM explicit, including emotional memories - recognising emotions in faces
Procedural memory, such as learning and classical conditioning

Question 2

what role does the frontal lobe have with memory

Answer 2

storage, processing and encoding procedural memories
Episodic memory
memory for language and motor-skills

Question 3

what role does the occiptial lobe have with memory

Answer 3

memory for pictures/visual

Question 4

what role does parietal lobe have in memory

Answer 4

spatial memory - spatial awareness

Question 5

what role does the temporal lobes have in memory

Answer 5

memory for sound and names of colours

Question 6

what role does the hippocampus have in memory

in table; 2 exmples given

Answer 6

forming explicit memory
consolidation and retrieving LT declarative memory

Question 7

what role does the Basal Ganglia have in memory

Answer 7

LTM procedural
movement

Question 8

Waht role does the cerebellum have in memory

Answer 8

1. encoding, processing and storing procuedural memory
2. classically conditioned responses - implicit
3. memory for motor-skills

Question 9

hippocampus and memory

define

Answer 9

involved in establishing the background or contect for each new mmeory. Declarative memory is not stored in hippocampus

Question 10

hippocampus and forming explicit memories

explicit - declarative –> semantic & episodic

Answer 10

the hippocampus is able to reproduce and enable new memories to be formed for complex tasks that require declarative memory

eg a child dlearning to spell an unfamiliar word

Question 11

the hippocampus and consolidating memories

consolidation - permanent representation of memory

Answer 11

the hippocampus takes the process of consolidation - the permanent storage of memory - of declarative memory

Question 12

the hippocampus and transferring new memory for storage

Answer 12

the transfer of delcarative memory from the hippocampus to other relevant parts of the brain occurs when it is less busy - during sleep, since the hippocampus is active during slow-wave sleep the memories are processed and transfered.

Question 13

factors affecting the functioning of the hippocampus

Answer 13

hippocampus can be disrupted by psychological factors like stress, anxiety, depression and PTSD as well as through brain trauma

Question 14

hippocampus damage

Answer 14

still able to learn and remember procedural information - motor-skills and habits but cannot remember actually performing the skill because their memory of it is declarative

Question 15

amygdala in emotional memory

Question 16

damage to the amygdala

Answer 16

damaged amygdala doesn’t allow a person to remember the emotions in a particular memory / the emotional response isn’t processed by the amygdala and thus there was no classical conditioning (they can not remember the emotions that came with a memory)

Question 17

the visual-spatial memory is stored in the:

Answer 17

posterior hippocampus

Question 18

Anterograde amnesia is a type of memory loss that involves

Answer 18

an inability to create new memories