Long Term Memory

Question 1

Serial Position Curve

Answer 1

indicated that memory is better for words at the start and end of a list rather than the middle

Question 2

Primacy Effect

Answer 2

Remembering words at the start of a list better

Question 3

Recency Effect

Answer 3

Better memory for stimulus presented at the end

Question 4

Long Term Memory

Answer 4

Responsible for storing information for an extended period of time; the more recent will be more detailed

Question 5

Episodic

Answer 5

Relating to personal events

Question 6

Semantic

Answer 6

Relating to facts/knowledge

Question 7

Mental Time Travel

Answer 7

experience of using memory to reconnect with past events

Question 8

Autobiographical Memory

Answer 8

Memory for specific details of ones life; associated with both episodic and semantic aspects

Question 9

Implicit

Answer 9

unconscious; procedural; priming

Question 10

Explicit

Answer 10

Conscious; episodic/semantic

Question 11

Priming

Answer 11

When presentation of stimulus changes the reaction outcome to another stimulus

Question 12

Repetition Priming

Answer 12

when test stimulus is same or similar to the primins stimulus

Question 13

Involved Brain Regions

Answer 13

Hippocampus

Question 14

Coding

Answer 14

Visual; auditory; semantic

Question 15

Encoding

Answer 15

process of acquiring information and transferring it to the Long Term Memory

Question 16

Retrieval

Answer 16

transferring information from the LTM to the working memory

Question 17

Maintance Rehearsal

Answer 17

repetition of a stimulus that does not transfer information to the LTM (no meaning)

Question 18

Elaborative Rehearsal

Answer 18

uses meaning or connection to transfer information to the LTM

Question 19

Consolidation

Answer 19

Transforms fragile memories to more permanent

Question 20

Consolidation Types

Answer 20

Synaptic
Systems
Standard Model of Consolidation

Question 21

Synaptic Consolidation

Answer 21

Structural changes at synapse

Question 22

System Consolidation

Answer 22

Gradual reorganization of neural circuits

Question 23

Standard Model of Consolidation

Answer 23

proposes incoming information activates a number of areas in the cortex

Question 24

Levels of Processing Theory

Answer 24

memory depends on the depth of processing
Shallow: little attention
Deep: close attention

Question 25

Factors that Aid Coding

Answer 25

Visual Imagery
Self-Reference
Organizing
Generating Information
Retrieval Cue

Question 26

Encoding Specificity

Answer 26

process of encoding information along with its context

Question 27

State-Dependent Learning

Answer 27

Learning associated with a particular state such as mood

Question 28

Retrograde Amnesia

Answer 28

Loss of memory for events prior to trauma

Question 29

Graded Amnesia

Answer 29

memory that is close to the trauma is severely impacted