Memory

Question 1

What is autobiographical memory

Answer 1

Long term memories made up of experiences

Question 2

What is flashbulb memory

Answer 2

Strong memories that are vivid

Question 3

Is autobiographical memory episodic memory

Answer 3

No

Question 4

Are memories always complete

Answer 4

no

Question 5

What are the qualities of autobiographical memories

Answer 5

Summary records and quite visual

Question 6

What are summary records

Answer 6

Key points of a memory

Question 7

What does SPAC stand for

Answer 7

Sensory, perceptual affet, cognitive

Question 8

What are the functions of autobiographical memories

Answer 8

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

Question 9

What is conways self-memory system

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Between what ages does memory making peak

Answer 10

20-30

Question 11

How well are children at recalling detailed memories

Answer 11

Not very good and the details they remember fade quickly

Question 12

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

Answer 12

As a child

Question 13

Why can’t we make good episodic memories when we’re younger

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Are children more semantic or perceptual

Answer 14

Perceptual

Question 15

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

Answer 15

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

Question 16

What impact does early prolonged stress have on the brain

Answer 16

It effects the hippocampus, plc and the amygdala

Question 17

What is the reminiscence bump in memory

Answer 17

It’s between the ages of 10-30 where the most memories are encoded

Question 18

What happens to our memory after the reminiscence bump

Answer 18

Our recall gets worse, cell lose in the PFC

Question 19

What areas of the brain is home to episodic memories

Answer 19

The PFC and the hippocampus

Question 20

What area of the brain is home to procedural memories

Answer 20

Cerebellum

Question 21

What areas of the brain is home to emotions

Answer 21

Amygdala

Question 22

Where is acitel coding done

Answer 22

The basal forebrain

Question 23

What is explicit recall

Answer 23

When you’re asking to repeat words you’ve read

Question 24

What is implicit recall

Answer 24

When you’re asked to use words in a task

Question 25

What is stochastic independence

Answer 25

Lack of correlation between 2 measures of memory at level of individual items

Question 26

What is functional independence

Answer 26

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

Question 27

What side of the PFC is semantic

Answer 27

Left side

Question 28

What side of the PFC is episodic

Answer 28

Right side

Question 29

What part does the stratum play in memory

Answer 29

Rewards learning

Question 30

What is prospective and retrospective in memory

Answer 30

Remember to do something and remembering have done something

Question 31

What is procedural and declarative in memory

Answer 31

Unconscious memory and conscious memory

Question 32

What is recalling and recognition in memory

Answer 32

Trying to remember something and something randomly popping up

Question 33

What part of the brain hold declarative

Answer 33

Hippocampus, PFC (medial temporal lobes)

Question 34

What parts of the brain are non-declarative memories

Answer 34

Amygdala, cerebellum and basal ganglia

Question 35

What is declarative memories

Answer 35

Episodic and semantic

Question 36

What are examples of non-declarative memories

Answer 36

Reflexes, procedural, priming, classical conditioning

Question 37

How does the hippocampus receive memory info

Answer 37

From the entorhinal cortex which receives info from the parahippocampus

Question 38

What parts of the brain is the hippocampus connected to in memory

Answer 38

Amygdala and PFC

Question 39

Does the hippocampus store long term or short term memories

Answer 39

Long term

Question 40

Does the hippocampus story episodic to semantic memories

Answer 40

Episodic

Question 41

Do London taxi drivers have a bigger or smaller hippocampus

Answer 41

Bigger

Question 42

What part of the brain acts like the boss of memory

Answer 42

PFC

Question 43

What’s the role of the PFC in memory

Answer 43

Organisation and strategical control memory

Question 44

What is the cell assembly theory

Answer 44

Neurons that fire together stay together, neurons that fire out of sync lose their link

Question 45

What is explicit memory

Answer 45

Conceptual, fact based

Question 46

What is implicit memory

Answer 46

Perceptual, prompts to make assumptions

Question 47

What is the perirhinal cortex good for

Answer 47

Integration of perceptual features

Question 48

What is the VLPFC used for in memory

Answer 48

Controls access to semantic representations

Question 49

What does VPC mediate

Answer 49

Bottom-up attention

Question 50

What are the parts of the default mode network in memory

Answer 50

PFC, hippocampus, temporoparietal junction

Question 51

What is the default mode network in memory

Answer 51

Day dreaming, not focused

Question 52

What mental health disorder disrupts the default mode network

Answer 52

AD, autism, SZ and MDD

Question 53

What is the attention/control network

Answer 53

Scene construction