Forms of memory

Question 1

Short term (working) memory

Answer 1

Said to hold about 4 items. Attention is crucial here

Question 2

Long term

Answer 2

Can be divided to declarative (explicit) and non-declarative (implicit). Used for storing knowledge about the world

Question 3

Decla explicit memory

Answer 3

Episodic (events that happened in time and space)

Semantic (facts, meanings, concept)

Question 4

Non decla implicit memory

Answer 4

Procedural (skill/habit)

Priming/perceptual learning

Simple classical conditioning

Non-associative learning

Question 5

Brain regions

Answer 5

Hippocampus and medial temporal lobe (mainly in episodic

Lateral and anterior temporal cortex, prefrontal cortex (mainly in semenatic)

Striatum, cerebellum, motor cortex ( procedural

Neocortex (priming/perceptual)

Amygdala/cerebellum (classical conditioning)

reflex pathway (non- associative)