LTM Flashcards

1
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What is organic amnesia?

A

a memory loss caused by biological factors such as brain damage or strokes
organic amnesias tend to have bigger impairments in episodic than semantic

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2
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What is semantic dementia?

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damage to anterior temporal lobes
widespread forgetting of meanings of words and concepts

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3
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What is some support for independent episodic and semantic memory?

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the idea that there is a double dissociation between amnesia (worse episodic than semantic) and semantic dementia (worse semantic than episodic)

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4
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Case of HM

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suffered from epilepsy, main issue was in temporal lobes
Scoville’s approach was to cut portions of right and left medial temporal lobes
seizures stopped but he developed severe memory problems
couldn’t retain any new info

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5
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Where is the hippocampus located?

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in the medial temporal lobes

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6
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Milner: what is the left medial temporal lobe responsible for?

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verbal memories

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Milner: what is the right medial temporal lobe responsible for?

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non-verbal (e.g pictural and spatial) memories

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What are the 4 main areas of damage In amnesia?

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medial temporal lobes
thalamus
basal forebrain
fornix and mammillary bodies

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9
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What is anterograde amnesia?

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impaired memory for events and facts experienced after onset of amnesia

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What is retrograde amnesia?

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impaired memory for events and facts learned before onset of amnesia

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11
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What is preserved in organic amnesia?

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STM
working memory
intelligence
attention
language

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12
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Is LTM unitary store?

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No, 2 classifications:
explicit and implicit LTM

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13
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What are declarative memories (explicit)?

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involves conscious retrieval of information

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What are some explicit memory tests?

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  • free recall
  • cued recall
  • forced choice recognition
  • yes/no recognition
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What are 2 examples of declarative memory?

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semantic and episodic memories

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According to Tulving, what is episodic memory?

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specific events linked to place and time
ownership of the memory
emerges later than semantic during development

17
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Binding-of-item-and-context model (Diana, 2007)

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perirhinal cortex (receives information about specific items “what” info)
parahippocampal cortex (receives info about context “where info”)
Hippocampus (binds “what” and “where” info)

18
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Bowles et al (2011): patients with damage to perirhinal cortex have…

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greater impairment to familiarity than recollection judgements

19
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According to Tulving, what is semantic memory?

A

general knowledge

20
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Semantic memory is accompanied by noetic consciousness, what does this mean?

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when you know something but without the personal, intimate feeling

21
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What are the 2 ways to retrieve episodic memories?

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  • recollection (mentally travel back to event)
  • familiarity
22
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What are remote memories?

A

memoires that occurred in the past

23
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What is Ribot’s law of memory?

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in cases of memory damage, the older the memory the less likely to be affected

24
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What is the Multiple trace theory?

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argues hippocampus is essential for autobiographical memory retrieval
hippocampal damage should affect all remote memories

25
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What are non-declarative memories (implicit)?

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having no conscious awareness
cannot be accessed

26
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What is an example of non-declarative memory?

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procedural memory
priming
classical conditioning

27
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What is priming?

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processing of repeated stimuli and doesn’t require conscious recollection of experience

28
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What is perceptual priming?

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where repeated stimuli presentations enhance perceptual processing

29
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What is conceptual priming?

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where repeated stimulus presentations enhance processing of stimulus meaning
activates an area in the inferior frontal gyrus

30
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What type of conditioning is another form of implicit learning?

31
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What should damage to the hippcampus affect more?

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affect remote memories more than recent memories