LTM structure

Question 1

LTM capacity

Answer 1

• unknown
• estimated: 10^13 (how many connections between neurons in brain)

Question 2

LTM basic def

Answer 2

• info retained for longer period of time (anything beyond 30 sec ago)

Question 3

t or f: new connections and brain growth continues until you die

Answer 3

true

Question 4

what info sticks commonly in ltm

Answer 4

• landmarks from significant places
• memories formed in late teens/early twenties remembered w accuracy

Question 5

when thinking back, memory drops then plateaus after ______

Answer 5

6 years

Question 6

t or f: music helps with coding

Answer 6

false ish: only helps if the music helps put you in a good headspace

Question 7

which stays longer, exact words/sound or meaning

Answer 7

meaning

Question 8

which would be confused in LTM and which in STM:
a) list of words that sound similar
b) list of words w similar meanings

Answer 8

STM=a)
LTM=b) (harder)

Question 9

STM relies on ____ whereas LTM relies on ____

Answer 9

sound, meaning

Question 10

explicit vs implicit memories

Answer 10

explicit: declarative, deliberate recollection/awareness, measure w direct memory tests
implicit: nondeclaritive, no awareness of its influence, indirect memory tests

Question 11

two types of declarative memories

Answer 11

episodic: associates w time and place, specific episode in life
semantic: general world knowledge, accumulation, combo of episodes overtime, ex order at restaurant

Question 12

type of nondeclaritive memory

Answer 12

• procedural: automatic skills, overly practiced/conditioned ex reading/walking
• conditioning
• priming
• non-associative (habit, sensitive)

Question 13

t or f: it is hard to remember specifics of an event if it is repeated often

Answer 13

true

Question 14

which is less prone to forgetting: procedural or semantic memory

Answer 14

semantic (feel of ‘just knowing’)

Question 15

t or f: after a related prime, people were faster to make a lexical decision

Answer 15

true

Question 16

priming

Answer 16

• exposure to certain stimuli makes certain responses to a second stimuli more likely to occur

Question 17

someone over does it with weed gummies and throws up. now every time they see a gummy they feel sick.
the weed gummy is the ______, the throwing up from it is the ____, any gummy is the _____ and the sick feeling when seeing it is the _____

options: UCR, CR, UCS, CS

Answer 17

UCS, UCR, CS, CR

Question 18

what type of memory is associated with motor skills

Answer 18

procedural

Question 19

amnesia

Answer 19

• loss of memory/memory abilities due to disease (ex altzhimers) or injury
• two types: retrograde (cannot remember the past) and anterograde (cannot remember events after injury)

Question 20

HM and amnesia

Answer 20

• anterograde amnesia
• memory of events before surgey was good
• normal procedural memory