episodic and semantic memories in remembering

Question 1

autobiographical events

Answer 1

personally lived experiences
this type of memories contains both components of episodic and semantic memories

Question 2

autobiographical event - birthday party, episodic components

Answer 2

• conversations with people
• feeling happy
• dancing to music
• taste of cake

Question 3

autobiographical event - birthday party, semantic components

Answer 3

• location
• flavour of cake
• who was there
• music that was played

Question 4

Alzheimers disease

Answer 4

a neurodegenerative disease that involves the progressive loss of neurons in the brain and is characterised by memory decline

Question 5

Alzheimers effects on memory

Answer 5

first a damaged hippocampus
struggles to encode and consolidate explicit memories
new memories can not be encoded
Therefore they are not stored
and no explicit memories exist

more of the hippocampus becomes damaged
- less encoding
- retrieval of some episodic memories retrieved

overtime
neocortex effected
therefor retrieval is effected

Question 6

why neurons die

Answer 6

amyloid plaques - inhibit communication
between neurons
neurofibrillary tangles - inhibit the transportation of essential substances and communication

Question 7

aphantasia

Answer 7

individuals lack the capacity to generate mental imagery

Question 8

person without aphantasia

Answer 8

use sensory info that has gone from STM to LTM to recreat perceptual experiences for mental imagery. Stored in semantic or episodic

Question 9

person with aphantasia

Answer 9

cannot visualise detailed and vivid episodic memories due to inability to generate mental imagery. Semantic may be intact , however visual element may be lacking