Learning And Memeory

Question 1

Shaping

Answer 1

Rewarding increasingly specific behaviors… good to train complicated behaviors

Question 2

Latent learning

Answer 2

Learning that happens but isn’t evident until there is a reinforcement

Question 3

3 ways to encode

Answer 3

Visual encoding (weakest)
Acoustic encoding
Semantic encoding( strongest)

Question 4

Self reference effect

Answer 4

Put it into the context of our own lives

Question 5

Maintenance rehearsal

Answer 5

Repetition of a price of info to keep it within memory or short term memory

Question 6

Method of loci

Answer 6

Associating each item within a location along a route through a building that has already been memorized

Question 7

Peg word

Answer 7

Associate number with items that rhyme it with symbols that resemble that number

Question 8

7 +2 rule

Answer 8

Short term memory limited to 7 items

Housed in the hippocampus

Question 9

Elaborate rehersal

Answer 9

Association of the info to knowledge already stored as long term memory
Stored in hippocampus but over time moved to cerebral cortex

Question 10

Semantic networks

Answer 10

Concepts linked together based on similar meanings

Question 11

Spreading activation

Answer 11

When one mode of out semantic network is activated, the other linked concepts are around it are unconditionally activated

Question 12

Context efforts

Answer 12

Reticular cue- memory aides by being in the physical location where encoding took place

Question 13

State dependent memory

Answer 13

Mental state affect recall- recall better if you are in the same state as you encoded it

Question 14

Alzheimer’s

Answer 14

• Loss of acetylcholine in neurons
• Progressive demential loss of cognitive function and memory loss
• neurofibrillary tangled and beta amyloid plaques
• sundowning

Question 15

Sundowning

Answer 15

Increase in dysfunction in the late afternoon and evening

Question 16

Korsakoff syndrome

Answer 16

Memory loss by thiamine deficiency in the brain of

Retrograde and anterograde amnesia

Question 17

Retrograde amnesia

Answer 17

Loss of old memories

Question 18

Anterograde amnesia

Answer 18

Inability to form new memories

Question 19

Confabulation

Answer 19

Process of creating vivid but fabricated memories to fill in the gaps… leads to false memories

Question 20

Agnosia

Answer 20

Loss of ability to recognize objects, people or sounds

Caused by physical damage to the brain

Question 21

Retroactive interference

Answer 21

New info causing one to forget old info

Question 22

Proactive interference

Answer 22

Old indie interfering with new learning

Question 23

Prospective memory

Answer 23

Remembering to perform a task at some point in the future

Question 24

Source monitoring error

Answer 24

Memory error where the source of the memory is incorrectly attributed

Question 25

Synaptic pruning

Answer 25

As we get older weak neural connections are broken while strong ones are bolstered

Question 26

Long term potentiation

Answer 26

Responsible for the conversion of short term to long term memory is the strengthening of neural connection resulting from the increase neurotransmitter release and adding receptor sites