Memory

Question 0

What is the system model?

Answer 0

Memory can be broken down into smaller subsystems or functional units

Question 1

T/F: memory is critical to our ability to acquire normal language, develop higher reasoning abilities, and have effective decision making?

Answer 1

TRUE

Question 2

Which terms were coined to explain the stages of information processing?

Answer 2

Encoding
Consolidation
Storage
Retrieval

Question 3

What is encoding?

Answer 3

Early processing of material (good encoding means good storage for later use)

Question 4

What is consolidation?

Answer 4

Process of transferring encoded info into permanent info (if consolidation is NOT complete- trauma/disease will cause you to lose the newly encoded information)

Question 5

What areas are most useful for the consolidation process?

Answer 5

Medial temporal lobes

Question 6

What is storage?

Answer 6

The WAY information is held in memory for future use

Question 7

What is retrieval? How is it measured.

Answer 7

Act of pulling information from storage

Measured via delayed recall paradigms

Question 8

Which lobes are active during the retrieval process?

Answer 8

Frontal lobes (hippocampus)

Question 9

Do people with frontal lobe deficits perform better on story recall or list learning paradigms?

Answer 9

Story recall because of the structured organization when encoding

List learning is not structured so frontal lobe deficits show more impairments

Question 10

Short term memory is limited in …

Answer 10

Capacity and function

Question 11

What is the memory buffet mechanism? Who proposed it?

Answer 11

Proposed by the baddeley model, it is the mechanism that integrates information from the visuospatial sketch pad to the phonological loop.