Implicit and Explicit Memory

Question 1

characteristics of explicit memory

Answer 1

conscious recollection
declarative memory (recall and recognition)

Question 2

characteristics of implicit memory

Answer 2

unconscious change
procedural knowledge
priming

Question 3

characteristics of explicit tasks

Answer 3

requires subjects to make explicit references

learning tested through recall and recognition

Question 4

characteristics of implicit tasks

Answer 4

tests don’t make explicit references to previous study or learning
learning testing through changes in performances

Question 5

psychogenic amnesia

Answer 5

person forgets who they are
caused by psychological trauma
rare

Question 6

organic amnesia types

Answer 6

retrograde amnesia

anterograde amnesia

Question 7

retrograde amnesia

Answer 7

inability to retrieve explicit information prior to trauma

usually temporally-graded

Question 8

anterograde amnesia

Answer 8

inability to learn new explicit information after trauma

Question 9

priming

Answer 9

advantage in processing a stimulus as a result of previous exposure to something similar