Week 6 - Long Term Memory

Question 1

What are two features of long term memory?

Answer 1

Permanent, dormant

Question 2

What are the two broad types of long term memory?

Answer 2

Declarative- episodic and semantic
Non declarative - procedural, priming, conditioned responses

Question 3

What is long-term memory?

Answer 3

A memory mechanism that can hold large amount of information for long periods of time. Long-term memory is one of the stages in the modal model of memory.

Question 4

What is a serial position curve

Answer 4

In a memory experiment in which participants are asked to recall a list of words, a plot of the percentage of participants, remembering each word against the position of that word in the list

Question 5

What was the outcome of the serial position curve

Answer 5

That memory is better for words presented at the beginning of the list and end of the list

Question 6

What is the primacy effect?

Answer 6

In a memory experiment, in which a list of words is presented, enhanced memory for words presented at the beginning of the list

Question 7

What is the recency effect?

Answer 7

In a memory experiment in which a list of words is presented, enhanced memory for words presented at the end of the list

Question 8

What is coding?

Answer 8

The form in which stimuli are represented in the mind. For example, information can be represented in visual, semantic, visual, and phonological forms.

Question 9

What is proactive interference?

Answer 9

When information learned previously interferes with learning new information

Question 10

What does recognition memory?

Answer 10

Identifying a stimulus that was encountered earlier. Stimuli are presented during a study period; later the same similar, plus other new stimuli presented. The participants task is to pick the stimuli that were originally presented.

Question 11

What is the function of the hippocampus?

Answer 11

A sub cortical structure that is important for forming long-term memories, and also plays a role in remote, episodic memories, and in short-term storage of novel information

Question 12

What is mental time travel?

Answer 12

The defining property of the experience of episodic memory, in which a person travels back in, Time in his or her mind to re-experience events that happened in the past

Question 13

What is an autobiographical memory?

Answer 13

Memories for specific events from a persons life, which can include both episodic and semantic components

Question 14

What are personal semantic memories?

Answer 14

Semantic components of autobiographical memories

Question 15

What is the remember/know procedure

Answer 15

The procedure in which subjects are presented with a stimulus they have encountered before, and asked indicate remember, if they remember the circumstances under which the initial encounter that, or no, if the similar seems familiar, but don’t remember experiencing it earlier

Question 16

What does it mean to have semanticization of remote memories

Answer 16

Lots of episodic details for memories of long ago events

Question 17

What did the constructive episodic simulation hypothesis determine?

Answer 17

That episodic memories are extracted and recombine to construct simulations of future events

Question 18

What are explicit memories?

Answer 18

Memory that involves conscious recollections of events or fact that we have learned in the past

Question 19

What are implicit memories?

Answer 19

Memory that occurs when an experience effects of persons behaviour, even though the person is not aware that he or she has had that experience (unconscious)

Question 20

What is skill memory also referred to as

Answer 20

Procedural memory

Question 21

What is procedural memory?

Answer 21

Memory for how to carry out highly practiced skills

Question 22

What process does expert induced amnesia refer to?

Answer 22

Amnesia that occurs because well learned procedural memories do not require attention

Question 23

What is the process of priming?

Answer 23

Occurs when the presentation of one stimulus changes the way a person response to another stimulus

Question 24

What does repetition priming?

Answer 24

When are visual representation of a stimulus affects a person’s response to the same stimulus when it’s present later

Question 25

What does the propaganda affect refer to?

Answer 25

People are more likely to write statements they have heard or read before as being true, just because of prior exposure to the