Memory

Question 1

Memory

Answer 1

Long-term changes in the nervous system that occur after learning
Process that codes, stores, and retrieves sensory info that is learned and experienced

Question 2

Types of memory

Answer 2

Sensory memory
Short-term (working) memory
Long-term memory

Question 3

Sensory memory

Answer 3

Brief period (fractions of a second to a few seconds) that the initial sensation of the environment is remembered
Occurs in each of the senses
“Afterimages”

Question 4

Short-term (working) memory

Answer 4

Longer than sensory memory, seconds to minutes
Info that is meaningful enough moves from sensory to short-term
Capacity is limited to a few items like a phone number
Length can be extended through rehearsal or chunking
Sensorimotor and prefrontal cortex

Question 5

Long-term memory

Answer 5

Declarative memory
Non-declarative memory

Question 6

Declarative memory (explicit memory)

Answer 6

Things you can tell others
Conscious memory
Two types: episodic and semantic

Question 7

Declarative memory: episodic

Answer 7

Memories about events you have experienced

Question 8

Declarative memory: semantic

Answer 8

Factual knowledge that is acquired over a lifetime

Question 9

Non-declarative memory (implicit/procedural memory)

Answer 9

Things you show by doing
Harder to descrive
Nonassociative memory (reflex pathways)
Spatial memory (hippocampus and cortex)
Three types: skill learning, priming, conditioning

Question 10

Non-declarative memory: skill learning

Answer 10

Knowledge of how to do things