Memory Flashcards
What is memory?
The way past events affect future function.
Describe memory in a neurological sense.
It is the repeated firing of neurons in a systematic pattern.
What is encoding?
Creating a mental representation or image.
What is storage?
Increasing probability of future activation of image.
What is retrieval?
Activation of the image/representation profile.
What needs to be activated multiple times to translate it to long term memory?
retrieval
Name 2 types of memory.
- implicit
2. explicit
What kind of memory is non-declarative?
implicit
What kind of memory is declarative?
explicit
What are 2 sub-types of explicit memory?
- semantic
2. episodic/autobiographical
What is another name for episodic memory?
autobiographical
What is another name for autobiographical memory?
episodic
Match the description to a type of memory:
somatic (body)
Implicit
Match the description to a type of memory:
perceptual (senses) - can shape perception and explicit memory
implicit
Match the description to a type of memory:
Unconscious behavioral, perceptual, and emotional learning
implicit
Match the description to a type of memory:
Processed through amygdala, limbic, basil ganglia, motor or perceptual cortices
implicit
Match the description to a type of memory:
Perceptual mental models of experiences encoded by 12 mos and compared to future ones.
implicit
Match the description to a type of memory:
18 mos evocative memory-evoke sensory model to regulate self
implicit
What is procedural memory?
memory for how to do something
List some examples of procedural memory.
- walking
- riding a bike
- writing
- syntax
- decoding/literacy
What is an example of an impairment of procedural memory?
Language impairment
What kind of memory is procedural memory?
implicit
Match the description to a type of memory:
Factual or noesis
explicit and semantic
Match the description to a type of memory:
Memory for words and concepts.
explicit and semantic
