Memory

Question 1

What are the types of memory?

Answer 1

1. WORKING MEMORY

2.LONG TERM MEMORY
which includes:
Explicit
-episodic
-semantic

Implicit

• skills/habits
• conditioned reflexes
• emotional

Question 2

What is working memory?

Answer 2

Short term memory which is concerned with immediate conscious perceptual and linguistic processing

Question 3

What is explicit memory?

Answer 3

Conscious, intentional recollection of previous experiences and information.

For example: remembering an appointment time, or an event from years ago

Question 4

What is episodic memory?

Answer 4

Memory of autobiographical events - past personal experiences that occurred at a particular time and place

Can be explicitly stated

Question 5

What is semantic memory?

Answer 5

Refers to a portion of long term memory that processes ideas and concepts that are not drawn from personal experience.

Includes things that are common knowledge - basic facts acquired over a lifetime like names of colours, sounds of letters

Question 6

What is implicit memory?

Answer 6

A type of memory in which previous experiences aid the performance of a task - but without conscious awareness of the previous experiences

Question 7

What part of the brain does working memory?

Answer 7

Prefrontal cortex

Question 8

What part of the brain does skills & habits (form of implicit memory)?

Answer 8

Cerebellum, basal ganglia

Question 9

What part of the brain does conditioned reflexes?

Answer 9

Cerebellum

Question 10

What part of the brain does emotional memory?

Answer 10

Amygdala

Question 11

What part of the brain lays down new memories?

Answer 11

Hippocampus