[Week 5] Forgetting and Amnesia

Question 1

Anterograde amnesia

Answer 1

Inability to form new memories for facts and events after the onset of amnesia.

Question 2

Consolidation

Answer 2

Process by which a memory trace is stabilized and transformed into a more durable form.

Question 3

Decay

Answer 3

The fading of memories with the passage of time.

Question 4

Declarative memory

Answer 4

Conscious memories for facts and events.

Question 5

Dissociative amnesia

Answer 5

Loss of autobiographical memories from a period in the past in the absence of brain injury or disease.

Question 6

Encoding

Answer 6

Process by which information gets into memory.

Question 7

Interference

Answer 7

Other memories get in the way of retrieving a desired memory

Question 8

Medial temporal lobes

Answer 8

Inner region of the temporal lobes that includes the hippocampus.

Question 9

Retrieval

Answer 9

Process by which information is accessed from memory and utilized.

Question 10

Retrograde amnesia

Answer 10

Inability to retrieve memories for facts and events acquired before the onset of amnesia.

Question 11

Temporally graded ??retrograde amnesia

Answer 11

Inability to retrieve memories from just prior to the onset of amnesia with intact memory for more remote events.