key concepts

Question 1

information processing

Answer 1

Brain works like a computer: input (through senses)
-> encoding (changed into format easier to
understand) -> storage (held in memory) -> retrieval
(recall of memory) -> output (use recalled info.)

Question 2

hippocampus

Answer 2

Involved in making new memories - must pass through here before entering long- term storage.

Important for semantic memories of facts/ autobiographical memories.

Question 3

cerebellum

Answer 3

Responsible for learning movements and procedural memory (motor skills).

Question 4

amnesia

Answer 4

Caused by brain injury, illness, some medications.

Question 5

Anterograde amnesia

Answer 5

unable to form new
memories. Caused by damage to hippocampus

Question 6

Retrograde amnesia

Answer 6

unable to recall existing
memories. Caused by damage to frontal lobe.

Question 7

semantic memory

Answer 7

memory of facts, names or general knowledge

Question 8

episodic memory

Answer 8

memories of places, events and people

Question 9

procedural memory

Answer 9

responsible for motor skills

Question 10

autobiographical memory

Answer 10

memories we collect during our lifetime, of things we have done and places we have been