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1
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When we hear a word we are familiar with…

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A representation is excited
Resting threshold exceeded
Ready for conscious processing

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What one can retrieve from the LTM at any time is ______

& Depends on many factors that ___________

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Limited

Contributed to retrieval

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What are the three components of the LTM?

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Procedural
Semantic
Episodic

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Which two LTM memory forms are declarative?

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Episodic

Semantic

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What are LTM memories that literally take you back to the moment you experienced them?

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Autobiographical

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What LTM memories hold strong emotional content?

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Flashbulb memories

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Out of the LTM memory stores, which is not declarative?

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Procedural

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Out of the LTM memory stores, which is implicit?

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Procedural

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9
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Procedural memories are ______ and not ________

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Implicit

Delcarative

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10
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Are procedural memories retrieved consciously or unconsciously?

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Unconsciously

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Which of the LTM stores is the largest?

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Procedural

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12
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Which of the LTM stores is the smallest?

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Semantic

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What is semantic memory?

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Memory that stores information and meaning about the world

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What is episodic memory?

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Memory that stores info about events

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Which of the LTM stores may be perceptually encoded?

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Episodic

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What does perceptually encoded mean?

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Cued by a sight/sound/smell

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17
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Semantic memories contribute to many of our _______ abilities and _____ formation

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Cognitive abilities

Concept formation

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18
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Is semantic memory stable or unstable?

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Stable & consistent

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19
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Which is the first LTM system to develop?

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Procedural

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Laws, principles, strategies and facts are all present in ______ memory.

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Semantic

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21
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Remembering of information indicates….

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Memory of the event of learning that information

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22
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What are lesions?

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Brain damage that results in a loss of a specific function

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23
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3 Paradigms

LTM Theory

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Lesions
Imaging
Cog Paradigms

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What was it predicted that brain lesions would result in (LTM theory)

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Should be able to encode info into semantic without forming an episodic memory

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What was the true outcome - brain lesions (LTM theory)

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Brain injury studies

Episodic memory loss but language/literacy knowledge acquired at school still there

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26
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What is brain lesion evidence proof of?

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Distinct memory stores

Can work independently of each other

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27
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fMRI/other imaging techniques can show a difference in brain activation when people….

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Process information from semantic or episodic memory

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28
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What were the findings regarding episodic and semantic information in brain imaging studies?

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Different patterns of activation when recalling semantic vs episodic

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29
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Which is most convincing out of

a) lesion evidence
b) imaging evidence
c) cognitive paradigm evidence

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All equally convincing

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30
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How is new episodic information learnt/transferred to LTM?

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It is bound with existing LTM memory

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31
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Which memory system manages the links between memory systems?

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Hippocampus

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32
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What is the hippocampus, in terms of memory storage?

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The temporary memory store

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33
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Consolidation is the process of…

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Stabilising a memory after the initial acquisition

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34
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Memory consolidation is thought to consist of… (2)

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a) synaptic consolidation

b) system consolidationn

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What is system consolidation?

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Hippo-campus dependent memories gradually become independent of the hippocampus

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36
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What is a computational model of memory consolidation?

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Two stage model of memory

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37
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What is the two stage model of memory consolidation?

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Hippocampal systems –> neocortex over time

38
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What are the two components of the dual memory system?

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Hippocampus

Neocortex

39
Q

What is catastrophic interference?

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Tendency to completely/abruptly forget previous info upon learning new info

40
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The hippocampus and neocortex involved in order to overcome….

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Catastrophic interference

41
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The two-step system ensures that memories aren’t….

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Overwritten

42
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What does the Systems Consolidation Hypothesis propose?

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Sleep is an OFFLINE MODEL of information processing

43
Q

What happens to newly encoded information during sleep, according to SCH?

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Redistributed to neural networks serving as LTM during SWS

44
Q

At what stage of sleep does systems-consolidation occur?

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Short wave sleep (SWS)

45
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What are the stages of systems consolidation hypothesis (SCH)?

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Memories - reactivated selectively

Undergo qualitative changes for storage

46
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What kind of memories does SWS prefer?

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Memories with relevance for future plans

47
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______ and ______ knowledge from implicitly learned materials is facilitated (SCH)

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Explicit

Conscious

48
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Is there evidence for SWS playing a causal role in memory consolidation?

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Yes

49
Q

What is an example of dual processes of cognition

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Explicit and implicit thinking

50
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How many studies are there to provide support for the role of sleep in systems consolidation?

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2

51
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Atizena & Cantero (SCH Study 1)

What were participants required to do?

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Exposure to either emotional/non emotional images

Half pps were sleep deprived, control slept at home

52
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Atizena & Cantero (SCH Study 1)

What were the findings?

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EMOTIONAL images gained preference during encoding

Sleep deprivation = memory impairment

53
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Atizena & Cantero (SCH Study 1)

What happened in the test phase, after 1 week?

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Pps asked to classify pics as ‘know’ or ‘remember’

More likely to ‘remember’ if they had slept normally

54
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Rasch (SCH study 2)

What were the participants require dot do?

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Learned location of pairs of cards while exposed to scent of roses

Slept to scent of roses/control: no scent

55
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Rasch (SCH study 2)

What were the findings

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Exposure to scent resulted in BETTER memory compared to control

56
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Rasch (SCH study 2)

What was the effect if the participants were exposed to the scent whilst awake?

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No effect

57
Q

What is the multiple trace theory?

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The idea that links with the hippocampus are maintained

58
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In the multiple trace theory, what is stored in the neocortex?

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The facts of an episode are extracted and stored in the neocortex

59
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What is the main difference between the two-step model and the multiple trace theory?

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In MTT, links are not lost

60
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Multiple Trace Theory

Each time information is presented to a person, it is…

A

Neurally encoded in a unique memory trace

61
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Both the Two-Step model and Systems Consolidation hypothesis suggest information is…

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Initially encoded in episodic memory

Then transferred to semantic

62
Q

Where did Clive Wearing suffer brain damage?

A

Hippocampus

63
Q

Clive Wearing suffered damage to his hippocampus, which resulted in…., a symptom of which is

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Anterograde amnesia

Inability to make/keep memories

64
Q

The two stage model predicts that information won’t make it to semantic if…

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It isn’t consolidated into episodic

65
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The two stage model predicts that information won’t make it to semantic if it isn’t encoded into episodic. What evidence is there against this

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Children with episodic memory damage can still form semantic

66
Q

What are 3 of the seven sins of memory…

A

Misattribution
Suggestibility
Bias

67
Q

The two stage model of memory predicts that cortical learning/immediate consolidation into semantic memory is possible if…?

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Info is consistent with existing knowledge

68
Q

Schema consistent information is learnt…

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More quickly than schema inconsistent information

69
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In the systems consolidation hypothesis, is information gradually or rapidly extracted

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Gradually

70
Q

Semantic memory functions best when…

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Initially stored in episodic

Gradually consolidated in semantic over time

71
Q

Episodic memory facilitates semantic memory

Semantic memory facilitates episodic memory

A

Which is true?

72
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__________ of new with existing information facilitates learning

A

Interleaving

73
Q

What might forgetting be a result of?

A

Lack of consolidation

74
Q

Absentmindedness may be due to

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Lack of encoding

75
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Lack of attention may affect

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Ability to encode

76
Q

Spreading activation is a process that activates…

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Semantically related information

77
Q

Spreading activation predicts that if lots of associations are active, this means

A

Memory will be better

78
Q

The two stage model was originally elaborated for declarative/non-declarative memories.

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Declarative

79
Q

The SCH predicts that new memories are encoded into a ________( ) then gradually transferred into a _________( )

A

Temporary store (hippocampus)

LTM store
neocortex

80
Q

Does system consolidation take place during SWS or REM?

A

SWS

81
Q

SCH

Memories, when transferred to the long term store, undergo __________ changes

A

Qualitative

82
Q

Memories are reactivated/deactivated during SWS

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Reactivated

83
Q

How does the brain prevent newly learned materials washing away old memories

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Two parallel stores

Subsequent periods of consolidation where new memory traces are repeatedly reactivated & redistribute

84
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SCH

The s’slow learning’ store is the

A

Neocortex

85
Q

Neocortical networks gradually lose their dependence on hippocampal networks

True or false?

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True

86
Q

Which, out of episodic and semantic memory are more likely to become independent of the hippocampus quicker?

A

Semantic (for episodic, HC function may be required even after years)

87
Q

What are the two types of consolidations for memory

A

System

Synaptic

88
Q

This type of consolidation implicates the strengthening of memory representations at the synaptic level

A

Synaptic consolidation

89
Q

Hippocampal to neocortical redistribution of memory representations is promoted by….

A

Sleep

90
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Sleep supports a passive/active process of system consolidation

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Active

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