Chapter 7

Question 1

Explain the function, span, and duration of each of the 3 types of memory.

Answer 1

1. Sensory memory: Haptic; Echoic(5-10s); Iconic(1s); Olfactory; gustatory
2. STM: 5-20s. 7+-2； chunking.
3. LTM: enduring store of info like facts, experiences, and skills. Last decades or a lifetime.

Question 2

compare the subtypes of long-term memory

Answer 2

1. Semantic: general knowledge
2. Episodic: recollection of events in our lives.
3. Procedural: skills and actions
4. Priming: ability to identify a stimulus more easily or more quickly after we’ve encountered similar stimuli.
5. conditioning
6. habituation

Question 3

Describe how memories are encoded, stored, and retrieved.

Answer 3

1. attend. 2. “schemas”. 3. “retrieval cues”

Question 4

Explain 2 different types of amnesia

Answer 4

1. Anterograde: loss of ability to make new memories.
2. Retrograde: loss of past mamories.

Question 5

Describe 3 of Alzheimer’s disease’s physiological features.

Answer 5

1. Loss of brain volume and folding.
2. Devastating losses of synapses and neurons within the hippocampus.
3. Neurofibrillary tangles.

Question 6

Describe 3 types of false memories

Answer 6

1. Flashbulb memories: Emotional memories that are vivid and feel exceptionally detailed but the accuracy declines.
2. Imagination inflation: imagining an event inflates confidence in the likelihood that the event occurred.
3. Source monitoring confusion: lack of clarity about the origins of a memory.