WEEK 6: Long Term Memory Structure

Question 1

A system that is responsible for storing information for long periods of time

Answer 1

Long term memory

Question 2

Archive of information in our past events in our lives and knowledge we have learned

Answer 2

Long term memory

Question 3

Coordinates with working memory to help create our ongoing experience

Answer 3

Long term memory

Question 4

Declarative

Answer 4

Explicit

Question 5

Non-declarative

Answer 5

Implicit

Question 6

Facts & general knowledge

Answer 6

Semantic

Question 7

Experienced events

Answer 7

Episodic

Question 8

Perceptual

Answer 8

Priming

Question 9

Motor & cognitive skills

Answer 9

Procedural

Question 10

MENTAL TIME TRAVEL:

Memory for specific personal experiences, involving mental time travel back in time to achieve a feeling of reliving experience

Answer 10

Episodic memory

Question 11

MEMORY FOR FACTS:

Accessing things we are familiar or know about

Answer 11

Semantic memory

Question 12

PERSONAL SEMANTIC MEMORIES:

People’s memories for experiences from their own lives. both episodic and semantic.

Answer 12

Autobiographical memory

Question 13

TRUE OR FALSE:

Memory is better for words in the middle of a given list.

Answer 13

False. Memory is better for words at the beginning and end of the list than for words in the middle.

Question 14

Refers to the form in which stimuli are represented

Answer 14

Coding

Question 15

Occur in both STM and LTM

Answer 15

Visual & Auditory coding

Question 16

Pre-dominant type of coding in LTM

Answer 16

Semantic coding

Question 17

Pre-dominant type of coding in STM

Answer 17

Auditory coding

Question 18

Coding for meaning; happens in the LTM predominantly

Answer 18

Semantic coding

Question 19

EXAMPLES OF CODING IN SHORT-TERM MEMORY:

Holding an image in our mind to reproduce a visual pattern that was just seen.

Answer 19

Visual coding

Question 20

EXAMPLES OF CODING IN SHORT-TERM MEMORY:

Representing the sounds of letters in your mind just after hearing them.

Answer 20

Auditory coding

Question 21

EXAMPLES OF CODING IN SHORT-TERM MEMORY:

Placing words in an STM task into categories based on their meaning.

Answer 21

Semantic coding

Question 22

EXAMPLES OF CODING IN LONG-TERM MEMORY:

Visualizing how your friend looked when you surprised him at this birthday party.

Answer 22

Visual coding

Question 23

EXAMPLES OF CODING IN LONG-TERM MEMORY:

A song you have hear many times before, repeating it over and over in your mind.

Answer 23

Auditory coding

Question 24

EXAMPLES OF CODING IN LONG-TERM MEMORY:

Recalling the general plot of a novel you read last week.

Answer 24

Semantic coding

Question 25

MEMORY IN BRAIN: Removal of medial temporal lobe including hippocampus. Decreases seizures but lost LTM.

Answer 25

Patient HM (Henry Molaison)

Question 26

MEMORY IN BRAIN: Musician who had viral encephalitis damaged medial temporal lobe, hippocampus and amygdala. Memory is between 30 seconds.

Answer 26

Clive Wearing

Question 27

MEMORY IN BRAIN: Motorbike incident damaged his parietal lobe and reduced his digit span. Impaired STM while LTM is intact.

Answer 27

K.F. (K

Question 28

MEMORY IN BRAIN: The idea that STM and LTM are mediated by different mechanisms, which can act independently.

Answer 28

Double dissociation

Question 29

_______________ __________ include both episodic and semantic components.

Answer 29

Autobiographical memories

Question 30

____________ memory or _______ memory is responsible how people with amnesia are able to learn new skills although they do not remember learning them.

Answer 30

Procedural memory or skill memory

Question 31

_________________ is important in forming new long-term memories. It is also involved in holding novel information.

Answer 31

Hippocampus

Question 32

Increases about 60-65 years then declines at a much slower rate

Answer 32

Semantic memory

Question 33

Shows little change from early to late adulthood

Answer 33

Implicit or non-declarative memory

Question 34

Deteriorates rapidly in age, stable between 35-60 years then deteriorates quickly

Answer 34

Episodic memory

Question 35

Based on the idea that recollection is associated with episodic memory and familiarity is associated with semantic memory.

Answer 35

Remember/Know Procedure

Question 36

Loss of episodic detail for memories of long-ago events

Answer 36

Semanticization of remote memories

Question 37

TRUE OR FALSE: There is a link between the ability to remember the past and the ability to imagine the future.

Answer 37

**True.**

Question 38

TRUE OR FALSE: According to Addis et al. (2007), the main role of episodic memory is to remember the past.

Answer 38

**False.** The main role of episodic memory is to enable people to simulate possible future scenarios in order to help anticipate future needs and guide future behavior.

Question 39

Both _________ memory and _________ memory need to be functioning in order for us to think about the personal future.

Answer 39

Episodic and semantic memory