PSYCH

Question 1

hippocampus role

Answer 1

• encodes semantic and strengthnes episodic (explicit memories)
• turns STM into LTM
• does not store the memory ONLY once the AMYGDALA encodes the memory, THEN IT sends it to the NEOCORTEX to be stored
• damaged hippocampus = cannot form new EXPLICIT memories

Question 2

explicit memories

Answer 2

• type of long term memory that is formed and retrieved INTENTIONALLY and with CONSCIOUS efforts

Question 3

implicit

Answer 3

• type of long term memory that is formed and retrieved WITHOUT conscious efforts

Question 4

semantic memory

Answer 4

• the declarative memory of facts/knowledge about the world
• general fact, knowledge

Question 5

episodic memory

Answer 5

• personally experienced
• autobiographical events/personal