episodic memory

Question 1

declarative memory system:

Answer 1

handles factual info such as names, definitions, locations, events, etc

Question 2

procedural memory system:

Answer 2

houses memory for actions, skills, conditioned responses, emotional responses

Question 3

declarative memory can be broken down into:

Answer 3

episodic and semantic memory

Question 4

episodic memory:

Answer 4

made up of chronological recollections of personal experiences

Question 5

semantic memory:

Answer 5

general knowledge that is not tied to the time when the info was learned

Question 6

episodic memory equals what?

Answer 6

re-experiencing your own past events

Question 7

does semantic and episodic memory involve conscious thought?

Answer 7

yes

Question 8

a key difference between episodic and semantic memory is that

Answer 8

semantic memory is not temporally ordered

Question 9

episodic memory is ordered in:

Answer 9

time. temporal organization

Question 10

autonoetic:

Answer 10

the awareness of a personal experience where ones self is the central focus

Question 11

involuntary memory:

Answer 11

an environmental cue can trigger involuntary retrieval of an episodic memory

Question 12

why may it be challenging for researchers to investigate childhood amnesia?

Answer 12

1. accuracy of memories can be difficult to verify
2. a lot of these memories can involve trauma or abuse
3. dating the memory can also be difficult

Question 13

two theories that lead to the explanation as to why we have childhood amnesia:

Answer 13

1. development of self-concept
2. development of language

Question 14

which gender tends to have earlier childhood memories?

Answer 14

women

Question 15

young adults have the most efficient encoding system based on:

Answer 15

optimal maturation of neural mechanisms of memory

Question 16

remembering episodic events can be thought of like:

Answer 16

time travel

Question 17

episodic remembering=

Answer 17

re experiencing your own past events

Question 18

source monitoring error occurs when:

Answer 18

a memory derived from one source is misattributed to another source

Question 19

misinformation effect:

Answer 19

occurs when participants recall an event they witnessed is altered by introducing misleading post-event information

Question 20

social contagion of false memories demonstrates how

Answer 20

social networks spread misinformation

Question 21

stolen or disputed memory studies shed insight in how

Answer 21

people can adopt others’ memories as their own

Question 22

contextual associations:

Answer 22

all presented words are associated with the critical intrusion, thus activating the node for that word

Question 23

false memory induction procedure:

Answer 23

experimenters ask participants about events fro their childhood, which never happened