memory Flashcards
The brain’s processor for explicit memories like names, places, and events
hippocampus
Stressful, emotional memories are processed in the
amygdala
Procedural memories are a type of _________ memory:
implicit
Facts and concepts about the world are explicit, declarative, and ______:
semantic
procedural memories
memories for how you do things
The way in which information is processed for storage in memory defines:
encoding
Acoustic encoding and the phonological loop take place in the _____ lobes:
temporal
If you were calm when studying, you should remain calm during the test. This refers to:
state dependent memory
Unconscious or subconscious activation of memories (e.g. hear “rabbit” more likely to spell h-a-r-e instead of h-a-i-r)
priming
The increased efficiency of neural firing in well learned and remembered behaviors is
long term potentiation
Faulty memory for how, when, or where information was learned or imagined is
source amnesia
Inability to form memories for new information:
antreograde
“ACK! Give me a minute! I know it starts with the letter w…” describes experiencing:
TOT phenomenon
proactive interference
when the old interferes with the new
retroactive interference
when the new interferes with the old
retreograde amnesia
can remember the past but cant make new memories
antreograde amnesia
cant remember the past but can form new memories
Imagining a familiar sequence of places (such as placement of furniture in your room) is using:
method of loci
Dictionary definitions and mathematical formulas are examples of:
artificial concepts
ex of concept hierarchy
animal, mammal, dog, newfonland
