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1
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what is autobiographical memory

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long term memories made up of experiences

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what is flashbulb memory

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strong memories that are vivid

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is autobiographical memory episodic

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no

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4
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are memories always complete

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no

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what are the qualities of autobiographical memories

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summary records and quite visual

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what are summary records

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key points of a memory

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what does SPAC stand for

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sensory, perceptual, affet, cognitive

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what are the functions of autobiographical memories

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direct = guide and shape behaviour, problem solving and planning
social = facilitating social interaction, develops new relationships and maintains old ones
self = construction of self, how we have become the person we are today

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what is Conways self-memory system

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episodic memories are building blocks - simple episodic memory is built from the blocks - complex episodic memories are the fully developed memory

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10
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between what ages does memory making peak

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20-30’s

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how well are children at recalling detailed memories

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not very good and the details they remember fade quickly

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at what time in our lives are we less prone to false memories

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as a child

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why cant we make good episodic memories when we’re younger

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episodic memories rely on semantic encoding which develops later on in life

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14
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are children more semantic or perceptual

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perceptual

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why is it difficult for children to make memories in reference to the PFC and hippocampus

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the hippocampus and PFC need to develop enough to able to have strategic control over memory making

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16
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what impact does early prolonged stress have on the brain

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it effects the hippocampus, plc and the amygdala (poorer consolidation of emotional info)

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what is the reminiscence bump in memory

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its between the ages of 10-30 where the most memories are encoded

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what happens to our memory after the reminiscence bump

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our recall gets worse, cell loss int he PFC

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what areas of the brain is home to episodic memories

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the PFC and the hippocampus

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what area of the brain is home to procedural memories

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cerebellum

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21
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what area of the brain is home to emotions

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amygdala

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22
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where is acitel coding done

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the basal forebrain

23
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what is explicit recall

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when you’re asked to repeat words you’ve read

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what is implicit recall

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the you’re asked to use the words in a task

25
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what is stochastic independence

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lack of correlation between 2 measures of memory at level of individual item

26
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what is functional independence

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finding experimental manipulation that affect performance on 2 measures of memory in different and even opposite ways

27
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what side of the PFC is semantic

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left side

28
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what side of the PFC is episodic

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right side

29
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what part does the stratum play in memory

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rewards learning

30
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what is prospective and retrospective in memory

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remember to do something and remembering have done something

31
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what is procedural and declarative in memory

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unconscious memory and conscious memory

32
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what is recalling and recognition is memory

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trying to remember something and something randomly popping up

33
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what parts of the brain hold declarative memories

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hypocampus, PFC (medial temporal lobes)

34
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what parts of the brain are non-declarative memories

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amygdala, cerebellum, basal ganglia

35
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what is declarative memories

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episodic and semantic

36
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what are examples of non-declarative memories

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reflexes, procedural, priming, classical conditioning

37
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how does the hippocampus receive memory info

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from the entorhinal cortex which receives info from the parahippocampus

38
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what parts of the brain is the hippocampus connected to in memory

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amygdala and PFC

39
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does the hippocampus store long term or short term memories

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long term

40
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does the hippocampus store episodic or semantic memories

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episodic

41
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do London taxi drivers have a bugger or smaller hippocampus

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bigger

42
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what other areas of the brain are linked to the hippocampus in memory (newly discovered areas)

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adjacent areas, white matter tracts, mamillary bodies (posterior part of the hippocampus), thalamic nuclei and the retrosplenial cortex

43
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what part of the brain acts like the boss of memory

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PFC

44
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what’s the role of the PFC in memory

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organisation and strategical control of memory

45
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what is the cell assembly theory

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neurons that fire together stay together, neurons that fire our of sync lose their link

46
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what is explicit memory

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conceptual, fact based

47
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what is implicit memory

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perceptual, prompts to make assumptions

48
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what is the perirhinal cortex good for

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integration of perceptual features

49
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what is the VLPFC used for in memory

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controls access to semantic representations

50
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what does VPC mediate

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bottom-up attention

51
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what are the parts of the default mode network in memory

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PFC, hippocampus, temporoparietal junction

52
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what is the default mode network in memory

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day dreaming, not focused

53
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what mental disorder disrupt the default mode network

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AD, autism, sz, mdd

54
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what is the attention/control network

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scene construction

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