Week 10 (How do we learn & remember)

Question 1

Who created the modal model for memory

Answer 1

Atkinson & Shiffrin, 1971

Question 2

Who first theorised about working memory?

Answer 2

Baddeley & Hitch, 1974

Question 3

Types of long term memory

Answer 3

Declarative, Non-Declarative, Emotional

Question 4

What does declarative memory consist of?

Answer 4

Things you know that you can tell others

Explicit (conscious)
Episodic: Personal, autobiographical
Semantic: Facts, knowledge.

Question 5

What does non-declarative/ procedural memory consist of?

Answer 5

Things you know that you can show by doing

Implicit (unconscious)

Skills
Habits
Priming
Conditioning

Question 6

What is anterograde amnesia

Answer 6

Inability to form NEW memories after the brain injury.

Impairs declarative memory but not non-declarative long-term memory/

Question 7

What is retrograde amnesia

Answer 7

Inability to access old memories from before the brain injury, may be incomplete, with older memories being accessible, whereas more recent memories are not.

Question 8

Whats another term for long-term storage

Answer 8

Consolidation