Module 24

Question 1

What is in charge of declarative memories?

Answer 1

The frontal lobes

Question 2

What is consolidating?

Answer 2

Moving to other parts of the brain for long term storage.

Question 3

What is in charge of implicit memory?

Answer 3

The cerebellum

Question 4

What is the basal ganglia?

Answer 4

Controls movement, and forms and stores procedural memory.

Question 5

What memories can be recalled from infancy?

Answer 5

Implicit

Question 6

What is the 3 year blank we have in our memories called?

Answer 6

Infantile amnesia

Question 7

What is a flashbulb memory?

Answer 7

Emotionally intense events that become burned in as a vivid seeming memory

Question 8

How does intense emotion cause the brain to form intense memories?

Answer 8

1. Rise in stress hormones
2. Trigger activity in the amygdala, next to the memory forming hippocampus
3. amygdala increases memory forming activity

Question 9

What is long term potentiation?

Answer 9

Signals are sent across the synapse more efficiently

Question 10

What are synaptic changes?

Answer 10

A reduction in the prompting needed to send a signal and an increase in the number of neurotransmitter receptor sites

Question 11

What happens when you prevent long term potentiation?

Answer 11

Prevent learning and erase recent learning