Literatuur week 3 Memory

Question 1

Atkinson and Shiffrin assume 3 structural components of memory, which are those?

Answer 1

Sensory registers, short term storage and long term storage

Question 2

Which 4 components of memory did Baddeley and Hitch came up with?

Answer 2

Phonological loop, visuospatial system, central executive and episodic buffer

Question 3

Which component from Baddeley is proposed as a limited capacity storage system responsible for integrating information from several sources

Answer 3

Episodic buffer

Question 4

What is a a component of the working memory model (Baddeley) that deals with spoken and written material

Answer 4

Phonological loop

Question 5

The phonological loop had two components, what are they?

Answer 5

Articulatory & Acoustic

Question 6

Associations between spatial background information and target information form the basic of …?

Answer 6

Episodic memory

Question 7

Where does the processing of faces, colours and motion take place?

Answer 7

Fusiform face area (within V4 and V5)

Question 8

Object information is processed via the…?

Answer 8

Perirhinal cortex

Question 9

Spatial information is processed via the…?

Answer 9

Parahippocampus

Question 10

What circuit is crucial for new memories?

Answer 10

Hippocampal-diencephalon circuit

Question 11

Amnesia in Korsakoff is a direct result of the inhability to remember ….?

Answer 11

(explicit) Contextual information

Question 12

There is evidence that both …. context memory and …. context memory are impaired in Korsakoff patients

Answer 12

Temporal and spatial

Question 13

What refers to the loss of information that was acquired before the onset of amnesia

Answer 13

Retrogade amnesia

Question 14

Which kind of amnesia refers to an impaired capacity for new learning

Answer 14

Anterograde amnesia

Question 15

Context memory deficit is an importen component of … amnesia

Answer 15

Retrograde amnesia

Question 16

All forms of … memory have been demonstrated to be spared in Korsakoff’s amnesia

Answer 16

Implicit

Question 17

What kind of memory involves conscious remembering of prior episodes, often by means of intentional retrieval of those episodes

Answer 17

Explicit memory

Question 18

What kind of memory involves influences of prior episodes on current behavior without intentional retrieval, and sometimes without conscious remembering of those prior episodes

Answer 18

Implicit memory

Question 19

When the ability to maintain associative information over a brief period of time is impaired, it has to do with deficits in….

Answer 19

Contextual working memory

Question 20

What does the articulatory component of the phonological loop do?

Answer 20

It allows continued maintenance of material

Question 21

What does the acoustic component of the phonological loop?

Answer 21

It allows simple judgements to be made under suppression

Question 22

The diencephalic-hippocampal memory system relies on (explicit/ implicit) memory?

Answer 22

Explicit

Question 23

On what brain structures does implicit memory rely?

Answer 23

Subcortical structures

Question 24

What is contextual memory?

Answer 24

The when and where of our experiences. Has to be linked with target information to get meaning

Question 25

What is target memory?

Answer 25

The information that is to be remembered. These target-context associations form the basis of episodic memory