Memory

Question 1

What does VSS stand for?

Answer 1

Visou - Spacial Sketchpad

Question 2

What does AL stand for?

Answer 2

Articulatory Loop

Question 3

What does EB Stand for?

Answer 3

Episodic Buffer

Question 4

Elaboration makes it easier to encode long term memory

Answer 4

ELABORATION MAKES IT EASIER TO ENCODE LONG TERM INFORMATION

Question 5

What is elaborative rehearsal?

Answer 5

When you elaborate around a topic and create meaning behind it

Question 6

What is loci training?

Answer 6

Mind Palace

Question 7

What is Baddeley known for?

Answer 7

Memory Research

Question 8

Where is long term memory stored in the brain?

Answer 8

Medial Temporal Lobe / Hippocampus

Question 9

If you remove just one Hippocampus will your memory be ok?

Answer 9

yes

Question 10

What does anterograde amnesia mean?

Answer 10

Loss of memory AFTER the trauma

Question 11

What does retrograde amnesia mean?

Answer 11

Loss of memory BEFORE the trauma.

Have trauma, then loose memory from beforehand

Question 12

memory starts in a liable form then becomes consolidated over time into a stronger memory

Answer 12

STARTS LIABLE - BECOMES CONSOLIDATED

Question 13

What is the famous faces test?

Answer 13

Famous faces from each decade. if you can t remember the face, your amnesia is from when that person was famous

Question 14

What is Episodic memory?

Answer 14

Who what where

i.e what you had for diner last night

Question 15

What is Semantic Memory?

Answer 15

Meaning, understanding, general knowledge, unspecific to actual experiences

Question 16

What is priming?

Answer 16

You don’t explicitly remember it but your nervous system was implicitly affected by it.

eg. the Word Fragmentation Completion task (HARE, H_R_)

Question 17

What is a habit?

Answer 17

When your behavior changes from goal based to context based.

i.e Starting to drive a car, start out goal based, then becomes context based

Question 18

What is under Explicit Memory?

Answer 18

Sub conscious

Semantic Memory and Episodic Memory

Question 19

What is under Implicit memory?

Answer 19

Conscious

Priming, Habits, Skills

Question 20

What type of memory does temporal lobe amnesia affect?

Answer 20

Episodic Memory

Question 21

What are the 4 sins of forgetting?

Answer 21

Transience/Memory Decay
Blocking/Retrieval Failure
Absentmindedness/Encoding Failure
Persistence

Question 22

What is retroactive interference?

Answer 22

New things interfere with old memories

Question 23

What is proactive interference?

Answer 23

Old things interfere with New memories

Question 24

What is blocking/retrieval failure?

Answer 24

Tip of the tongue feeling, feeling of knowing.

Intact in amnesia!

Question 25

What is absentmindedness?

Answer 25

Failure to pay attention

Question 26

What is memory persistence?

Answer 26

The inability to forget. Common in PTSD

Question 27

Why are traumatic events remembered more vividly?

Answer 27

The body had a high arousal and attention in the situation, creating a strong memory

Question 28

What are the three sins of memory distortion?

Answer 28

Misattribution - assigning a memory to the wrong source. E.g. Witness heard “gun!” thought they saw a gun

Bias - Memory is colored by present beliefs instead of actually what happened

Suggestibility - Altered because of misleading information, false events that didn’t happen (witness car crash, hit | smashed. see glass?)