Mem and Lan (6)

Question 1

What is decay?

Answer 1

fading of a memory trace

Question 2

What is interference?

Answer 2

memory traces disrupted or obscured by other material

Question 3

What is retroactive interference?

Answer 3

Memory disruption due to new learning.

Question 4

What is proactive interference?

Answer 4

Memory disruption due to previous learning

Question 5

What is consolidation?

Answer 5

process which fixes information in LTM

Question 6

How does consolidation occur?

Answer 6

1. temporary storage in hippocampus

2. then transfer to cortex

Question 7

What is dementia?

Answer 7

memory loss and effects on language functioning

Question 8

What is aphasia?

Answer 8

language impairments

Question 9

What is apraxia?

Answer 9

motor memory impairments

Question 10

What is agnosia?

Answer 10

Sensory memory impairments

Question 11

Symptoms of early stage Alz?

Answer 11

Loss of recent memories

Concentration is difficult

Question 12

Symptoms of mid stage Alz?

Answer 12

May need hands on care

May get lost

Question 13

Symptoms of late stage Alz?

Answer 13

Severe confusion

Needs personal care

Question 14

4 memory impairments of Alz?

Answer 14

1. Difficulty retaining new information
2. retrieval deficits
3. episodic memory impairment
4. Declarative (semantic) memory impairment

Question 15

3 language deficits of Alz?

Answer 15

1. Word-finding difficulties
2. Verbal fluency deficits
3. Less complex sentence structure

Question 16

2 visuospatial impairments of Alz?

Answer 16

1. Visual recognition impairments (faces)

2. Spatial deficits – lost in familiar surroundings

Question 17

1 executive function impairment of Alz?

Answer 17

1. Problems with Planning, predicting, correlating, abstracting

Question 18

In advanced Alz what part of the brain shows degeneration?

Answer 18

entorhinal cortex

Question 19

What is semantic memory?

Answer 19

person’s knowledge about the world: common knowledge

Question 20

What is episodic memory?

Answer 20

autobiographical events, recollection of where and when events happened in one’s own life

Question 21

What causes semantic dementia?

Answer 21

degeneration affecting the anterior temporal lobe

Question 22

Symptoms of semantic dementia?

Answer 22

Impaired semantic memory, intact autobiographical memory

Question 23

Hodges et al (1992) had participants with semantic dementia produce semantic and episodic facts from 3 epochs of their life and found?

Answer 23

Episodic memory was spared

Semantic memory was impaired.