Memory

Question 1

What are the neural correlates of memory?

Answer 1

Episodic memory: involves the medial temporal lobes including the hippocampus and the parahippocampal cortex

Question 2

Name and define each of the stages of the memory process.

Answer 2

Registration– input from senses into the memory system
Encoding – processing and combining of received information
Storage – holding of that input in the memory system
Retrieval – recovering stored information from the memory system (remembering)

Question 3

State two strategies for enhancing memory.

Answer 3

By assimilation – linking words with previous knowledge/giving words a meaning
Learn by mnemonics

Question 4

What are the two types of long-term memory?

Answer 4

Non-declarative (unconscious memory) – familiarity such that you know how to interact with object or situation without consciously thinking about it
 Called procedural memory for actions and behaviours
 Complex activities can be carried out without thinking
Declarative (conscious memory) – store of our knowledge

Question 5

What are the two types of declarative memory?

Answer 5

Episodic– memory related to personal experience (e.g. knowing what you did last night)
Semantic– memory for facts and what we think of as general knowledge (e.g. knowing the capital of France)