The psychobiological process of memory

Question 1

Explain the role of the Cerebellum

Answer 1

refers to the brain structure that encodes and stores implicit memories. Control, coordination and balance.

Question 2

Define Atkinson-Shiffrin multi-store model of memory

Answer 2

refers to a model of memory which outlines the three separate stores of memory, each of which interact through the processing, encodng and retrieval of memories.

Question 3

Explain the role of the hippocampus

Answer 3

refers to a brain structure that is primarily involved in encoding explicit memories.

Question 4

Explain the role of the Amygdala

Answer 4

refers to a brain structure that is primarily involved in encoding the emotional components of memories.

Question 5

Explain the role of the neocortex

Answer 5

refers to a brain structure that stores explicit memories

Question 6

Explain the role of the Basal Ganglia

Answer 6

refers to involving encoding and storing procedural memories and classically conditioned memories that are associated with unconscious habits, behaviours or procedures.

Question 7

Identify where the Semantic memories are encoded and stored

Answer 7

The semantic memories are encoded by the Amygdala and stored by the Neocortex.

Question 8

Identify where the Episodic memories are encoded and stored

Answer 8

The episodic memories are encoded by the Amygdala and stored by the Neocortex.

Question 9

Define autobiographical events

Answer 9

refers to personally lived experiences.

Question 10

Define possibly-imagined futures

Answer 10

refers to hypothetical expericnes and situations that an individual has the ability to create and conceptualise in their mind.

Question 11

Define neurodegenerative diseases

Answer 11

refers to diseases characterised by the progressive loss of neurons in the brain.

Question 12

Define amyloid plaques

Answer 12

refers to fragments of the protein beta-amyloid that accumulate into insoluble plaques that inhibit communication between neurons.

Question 13

Define neurofibrillary tangles

Answer 13

refers to an accumulation of the protein tau that forms insoluble tangles within neurons, which then inhibit the transportation of essential substances and eventually kill the neuron entirely.

Question 14

Define written traditions

Answer 14

Refers to practices in which knowledge, stories and customs are presented and shared through writing and reading.

Question 15

Define oral traditions

Answer 15

refers to practices in which knowledge, stories and customs are preserved through spoken word and movement.

Question 16

Define sung narratives

Answer 16

refers to stories that share important cultural, ecological and survival information through the use of singing, harmony and rhythm.

Question 17

Define songlines

Answer 17

refers to multimodal performances conducted as a family or community travels through Country and spaces in the landscape that record journeys, link important sites and describe ways to look after welfare of Country.