Memory: Storage and Forgetting

Question 1

hippocampus

Answer 1

camera of explicit memories

Question 2

memory consolidation

Answer 2

memory files moving from the hippocampus to the cortex for storage

Question 3

Cerebellum

Answer 3

a key role in forming and storing the implicit memories created by classical conditioning.

Question 4

Basal ganglia

Answer 4

facilitate the formation of our procedural memories for skills

Question 5

memory trace

Answer 5

a lasting physical chang as the memory forms

Question 6

flashbulb memories

Answer 6

an accurate and exceptionally vivid long-lasting memory for the circumstances surrounding learning about a dramatic event

Question 7

long term potential (LTP)

Answer 7

process involving persistent strengthening of synapses that leads to a long-lasting increase in signal transmission between neurons

Question 8

reteival cues

Answer 8

stimuli that help people retrieve memories

Question 9

retrospective memories

Answer 9

memories about the past

Question 10

prospective memories

Answer 10

intended future actions

Question 11

priming

Answer 11

“memoryless memory”

Question 12

encoding specificity principle

Answer 12

the idea that cues and contexts specific to a particular memory will be most effective in helping us recall it

Question 13

serial position effect

Answer 13

the psychological tendency to remember the first and last items in a list better than those in the middle

Question 14

anterograde amenisa

Answer 14

can’t form new memories

Question 15

retrograde amnesia

Answer 15

can’t recall old memories

Question 16

proactive interference

Answer 16

the tendency of previously learned material to hinder subsequent learning.

Question 17

retroactive interference

Answer 17

the tendency of later learning to hinder the memory of previously learned material.

Question 18

Repression

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the unconscious blocking of unpleasant emotions, impulses, memories, and thoughts from your conscious mind

Question 19

misinfo effect

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person’s recall of episodic memories becomes less accurate because of post-event information

Question 20

imagination inflation

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an increased tendency to falsely remember that an item has been seen

Question 21

source amnesia

Answer 21

faulty memory for how, when, or where information was learned or imagined.

Question 22

deja vu

Answer 22

eerie familiarity with supposedly new things