Key Terms: Memory Flashcards
Define Acquistion
Acquisiton is the fist step of memory encoding in which sensory stimuli are acquired by short-term memory.
Define Amnesia
Amnesia refers to deficits in learning and memory ability following brain damage or disease.
Define Anterograde amnesia
Anterograde amnesia refers to the loss of ability to form new memories.
Define Classical conditioning
Classical conditioning refers to a type of associative learning in which a conditoning stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus and becomes associated with it.
Define Consolidation
Consolidation is the process by which memory representation becomes stronger over time. Consolidation is believed to include changes in the brain system participating in the storage of information.
Define Declarative (/explicit) memory
Declarative memory (/explicit) refers to knowledge to which we have conscious access.
Define Dementia
Dementia refers to a loss of cognitive function in different domains (including memory) beyond what is expected in normal aging.
Define Encoding
Encoding is the processing of incoming information to be stored.
(Extra: consists of two stages; acquisition and consolidation).
Define Episodic memory
Episodic memory is a form of declarative memory that stores autobiographical infromatuon about events in one’s life.
Define Habbian learning
Habbian learning is Hebb’s theory of learning, which proposes that the mechanism underlying learing is the strengthing of synaptic connections that results when a weak input and strong input act on a cell at the same time.
Define Hippocampus
The hippocampus is a layered structure in the medial temporal lobe that receives inputs from wide regions of the cortex vai inputs from the surrounding regions of the temporal lobe, and sends projections out to sub-cortical targets.
(Extra: The hippocampus is involved in learning and memory, particularly memroy from spatial locations in mammals and episodic memory in humans).
