Memory Flashcards

1
Q

What is memory?

A

The way past events affect future function.

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2
Q

Describe memory in a neurological sense.

A

It is the repeated firing of neurons in a systematic pattern.

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3
Q

What is encoding?

A

Creating a mental representation or image.

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4
Q

What is storage?

A

Increasing probability of future activation of image.

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5
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What is retrieval?

A

Activation of the image/representation profile.

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6
Q

What needs to be activated multiple times to translate it to long term memory?

A

retrieval

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7
Q

Name 2 types of memory.

A
  1. implicit

2. explicit

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8
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What kind of memory is non-declarative?

A

implicit

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9
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What kind of memory is declarative?

A

explicit

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10
Q

What are 2 sub-types of explicit memory?

A
  1. semantic

2. episodic/autobiographical

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11
Q

What is another name for episodic memory?

A

autobiographical

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12
Q

What is another name for autobiographical memory?

A

episodic

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13
Q

Match the description to a type of memory:

somatic (body)

A

Implicit

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14
Q

Match the description to a type of memory:

perceptual (senses) - can shape perception and explicit memory

A

implicit

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15
Q

Match the description to a type of memory:

Unconscious behavioral, perceptual, and emotional learning

A

implicit

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16
Q

Match the description to a type of memory:

Processed through amygdala, limbic, basil ganglia, motor or perceptual cortices

A

implicit

17
Q

Match the description to a type of memory:

Perceptual mental models of experiences encoded by 12 mos and compared to future ones.

A

implicit

18
Q

Match the description to a type of memory:

18 mos evocative memory-evoke sensory model to regulate self

A

implicit

19
Q

What is procedural memory?

A

memory for how to do something

20
Q

List some examples of procedural memory.

A
  1. walking
  2. riding a bike
  3. writing
  4. syntax
  5. decoding/literacy
21
Q

What is an example of an impairment of procedural memory?

A

Language impairment

22
Q

What kind of memory is procedural memory?

A

implicit

23
Q

Match the description to a type of memory:

Factual or noesis

A

explicit and semantic

24
Q

Match the description to a type of memory:

Memory for words and concepts.

A

explicit and semantic

25
Q

Match the description to a type of memory:

Sense of self emotion + event across time-autonoesis

A

episodic/autobiographical AND explicit

26
Q

Match the description to a type of memory:

view of self across time

A

episodic/autobiographical AND explicit

27
Q

Match the description to a type of memory:

Co-constructed narratives with caregiver-sense-making of feelings

A

episodic/autobiographical AND explicit

28
Q

Match the description to a type of memory:
memory for subjective experiences throughout time; ability to perceive the present moment as both a continuation of the past and as a prelude to the future

A

episodic/autobiographical AND explicit

29
Q

Match the description to a type of memory:

conscious, focused attention to encoding and recollection a.k.a. working memory

A

episodic/autobiographical AND explicit

30
Q

Match the description to a type of memory:

Rehearsal creates long term storage or cortical consolidation

A

episodic/autobiographical AND explicit

31
Q

Match the description to a type of memory:

reorganization/memory traces in frontal cortex

A

episodic/autobiographical AND explicit

32
Q

Match the description to a type of memory:

allows linking mental representations with others (Hwa-Froelich, in press)

A

episodic/autobiographical AND explicit

33
Q

In order to access episodic memory, what must one be able to access?

A

semantic memory

34
Q

What does semantic memory do for our episodic memory?

A

It allows us to talk about our episodic memory in a narrative way.

35
Q

Can people who have been in war have therapy for PTSD?

A

Only if they are able to access their episodic memory.

36
Q

In order to access one’s episodic memory, what must one be able to access?

A

semantic memory