Memory

Question 1

What is Working Memory?

Answer 1

Active Processing of information
Associates new and old information
Solves problems
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Question 2

What are some techniques to boost working memory?

Answer 2

Animals in a minute
Beginning with a letter…
N-back test, find queen in deck, what was 2 behind?

Question 3

What is the serial position effect?

Answer 3

Tendency to remember the first and last items in a list

Question 4

Explicit memory (semantic vs. episodic)

Answer 4

Can be consciously recalled
Semantic - Memory of facts and general knowledge
Episodic - Personally experienced events
Processed in hippocampus

Question 5

Who was H.M. and how did his case study contribute to our knowledge of memory?

Answer 5

Suffered epileptic seizures
At 27 he had parts of his temporal lobes removed to prevent them
Remembered old memories
Could not remember what happened after surgery
Could not process new memories, called Anterograde Amnesia

Question 6

What are semantic networks?

Answer 6

Memories are held in storage by a web of associations

These associations are like anchors that help retrieve memory

Question 7

What is recall?

Answer 7

Bringing previously learned information into conscious awareness, as in a fill in the blank question on a test