Encoding, Retrieval, and Consolidation

Question 1

What are the types of rehearsal?

Answer 1

Maintenance and Elaborative

Question 2

Maintenance Rehearsal

Answer 2

Maintain or rehearse information in a temporary, store for use in the immediate future

Question 3

Elaborative Rehearsal

Answer 3

Change or add to existing information

Used to place information in LTM

Question 4

Context/State Dependent Memory

Answer 4

Recall of information is best when state, mood, or location matches when the information was stored or learned

Question 5

Encoding Specificity

Answer 5

Retrieval closely matches the conditions present during the original learning

Question 6

Context vs State dependent

Answer 6

Context dependent - external, environmental factors

State dependent - internal, physiological factors

Question 7

Mood Congruent Memory

Answer 7

Current mood causes selective or better encoding or retrieval that is congruent with the prevailing mood

Question 8

Long term potentiation

Answer 8

Communication across the synapse between neurons strengthens the connection, making further communication easier

Question 9

How does damage to the hippocampus affect LTP?

Answer 9

Damage result in poor or no learning; no long term potentiation

Question 10

What is REM sleep associated with?

Answer 10

Brain and body arousal

Question 11

Reconsolidation

Answer 11

Memory traces become vulnerable to disruption when they are recalled

Same effect as consolidations but does not necessarily occur with each memory we recall

It does occur with relatively newly consolidated material