H11 The remembering brain

Question 1

short-term memory (STM)

Answer 1

memory for information currently held “in mind”; it has limited capacity

Question 2

long-term memory (LTM)

Answer 2

memory for info that is stored but need not to be consciously accessible; has an essentially unlimited capacity

Question 3

working memory

Answer 3

system for the temporary storage and manipulation of info

Question 4

episodic buffer

Answer 4

additional STM system for maintaining & manipulating info prom episodic LTM

Question 5

phonological STM

Answer 5

verbal working memory

Question 6

articulatory suppression

Answer 6

silently mouthing words while performing some other task

Question 7

declarative memory

Answer 7

explicit memory = memories that can be consciously accessed & can typically be declared (type of LTM)

Question 8

non-declarative memory

Answer 8

implicit memory = memories that cannot be consciously accessed (type of LTM)

Question 9

procedural memory

Answer 9

memory for skills such as riding a bike (type of LTM)

Question 10

multiple memory systems approach

Answer 10

the subdivision of LTM into (non)-declarative & procedural memory

Question 11

priming

Answer 11

info is easier to access when recently encountered

Question 12

semantic memory

Answer 12

part of declarative memory: conceptually based knowledge about the world → culturally shared knowledge

Question 13

episodic memory

Answer 13

part of declarative memory: memory of specific events in one’s own life (= autobiographical memory)

Question 14

amnesia

Answer 14

difficulty memorizing & remembering events

Question 15

anterograde memory

Answer 15

memory for events that have occured after brain damage

Question 16

retrograde memory

Answer 16

memory for events that occured before brain damage

Question 17

consolidation

Answer 17

process by which moment-to-moment changes in brain activity are translated into permanent structural changes in the brain

Question 18

recognition memory

Answer 18

memory test in which participants must decide whether a stimulus was shown on a particular occasion

Question 19

recall

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participants must produce previously seen stimuli without a full prompt being given

Question 20

familiarity

Answer 20

context-free memory in which the recognized item just feels familiar

Question 21

recollection

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context-dependent memory that involves remembering specific info from the study episode

Question 22

“working with LTM”

Answer 22

involvement of PFC in
-memory encoding
-monitoring &memory retrieval
-source monitoring
- confabulation

Question 23

source monitoring

Answer 23

process by which retrieved memories are attributed to their original context

Question 24

confabulation

Answer 24

false memory that is sometimes self-contradictory without an intention to lie