lecture 22

Question 1

explicit memory

Answer 1

facts and events that we recall spontaneously and consciously

Question 2

episodic memories

Answer 2

autobiographical memory for events as the individual experienced them

Question 3

semnatic memories

Answer 3

facts and info without an autobiographical connection

Question 4

implicit memories

Answer 4

motor skills that can be performed automatically

Question 5

emotional memories include ____

Answer 5

affective properties of the stimulus

Question 6

long term memory systems

Answer 6

explicit, implicit, emotional

Question 7

short term memory systems

Answer 7

sensory, motor, cognitive

Question 8

amnesia

Answer 8

loss of existing memories or inability to form new ones

Question 9

T/F
amnesia requires an event to cause it

Answer 9

True

Question 10

anterograde vs retrograde amnesia

Answer 10

anterograde - inability to form new
retrograde - loss of old

Question 11

retrograde amnesia is ____-dependent, ____ events are more likely to be lost

Answer 11

time, recent

Question 12

islands of memory

Answer 12

events retained within the period of retrograde amnesia

Question 13

prospective memory

Answer 13

remembering things you intend to do

Question 14

destination memory

Answer 14

memory for past interactions, like who you told a story to

Question 15

childhood amnesia

Answer 15

inability to remember events before 4 years old, and difficulty recalling first 10

Question 16

theories for infantile amnesia

Answer 16

• developmental changes in cognitive abilities and memory systems in the first decade of life
• the rapid proliferation of new hippocampal neurons early on might disrupt stored memories

Question 17

fugue state

Answer 17

when an individual loses memory of their personal history

Question 18

fugue states are often ____ and ____, due to damage where?

Answer 18

sudden, transient, memory systems of the medial temporal lobe

Question 19

T/F
amnesias can exist for specific categories of items

Answer 19

yes, like human faces, fruits and veggies, animals, or birds, etc

Question 20

autonoetic awareness of time is what and allows for what

Answer 20

the awareness of the continuum of time from our past to our future, allows mental time travel from our past to present to future

Question 21

autonoetic awarenss depends on what structures

Answer 21

hippocampus and frontal lobes and uncinate fasciculus

Question 22

where is the semantic memory active

Answer 22

temporal and frontal lobes distinct from episodic memory, esp left

Question 23

parts of the ____ stream supports explicit memory

Answer 23

ventral

Question 24

____ relays info from the prefrontal cortex to the temporal lobe so support what type of memory

Answer 24

thalamic nuclei, explicit memory

Question 25

the ____ store memories when they are formed, older memories re stored in ____

Answer 25

hippocampus, adjacent cortex

Question 26

early damage to the hipocampus results in what

Answer 26

big problems with episodic memory, but almost normal semantic memory

Question 27

the rhinal cortex includes what and is part of what

Answer 27

the perihinal and entorhinal cortices, is part of the pathway for info flowing into hippocampus from the neocortex

Question 28

medial temporal structures

Answer 28

hippocampus, amygdala, perihinal, entorhinal, and parahippocampal cortices

Question 29

lesions to the hippocmapus in monkeys showed

Answer 29

impaired use of context, but normal object recognition

Question 30

lesions to the rhinal cortex in monkeys showed

Answer 30

impaired object recognition