wk 9

Question 1

evidence from neuropsychology: episodic memory is progressively impaired in ______ ______, whereas semantic memory is progressively impaired in ______ ______.

Answer 1

Alzheimer’s disease

semantic dementia

Question 2

Within nondeclarative memory, distinctions are made between procedural memory, which is responsible for skills that are learnt through practice, like tying your shoes or riding a bike, and ______, which is an improvement in processing of an item due to prior exposure to that item (but without requiring awareness of that the item was previously encountered)

Answer 2

priming

Question 3

in amnesia, previosly learnt semantic info is…

new semantic info is…

Answer 3

preserved, aquasition of new semantic info is largely impaired

Question 4

semantic dementia:

Answer 4

Progressive loss of semantic knowledge
(relatively intact anterograde episodic memory)

Question 5

typical types of test in semantic memory

Answer 5

Category fluency

matching tests

Question 6

which type of LTM is preserved in Anterograde amnesia

Answer 6

procedural

Question 7

Priming

Answer 7

Improvement (speed/accuracy) in processing a stimulus (identification/production/classification) as a result of a prior encounter with the same or a related stimulus.

Question 8

Type of tests to test priming

Answer 8

Perceptual identification (name object obscured by noise)

Word-stem/fragement completion (first word that comes to mind)

Sentance completion

Question 9

3 degree of conscious awareness (Tulving)

Answer 9

Autonoetic (self aware) episodic

Noetic (aware of info, not origin)

Anoetic (unaware)

Question 10

Amnesic patients usually show intact perceptual ______

Answer 10

priming

Question 11

what did Penfield (1958) find about forgetting and how

Answer 11

Stimulating temporal lobes of patients often elicited trivial memories.
Concluded that brain retains a permenant record of all experiences

Question 12

What did Ebbinghaus (1885) find about memory

Why does this happen

Answer 12

learned 169 diff lists, relearned each after an interval of 21 mins to 31 days. time to relearn list 100% measure of forgertting.
Showed a logarithmic curve (kind of plateaud as time went on)

Decay + interference

Question 13

Tulvings Encoding specificity principle

Answer 13

Retrieval success depends on ‘informational overlap’ between encoding and retrieval

Question 14

Consolidation as a theory of forgetting

Answer 14

= the glutamate release, protein synthesis, neural growth and rearrangement. Fixes info in LTM

this is selective

Question 15

All theories of forgetting

Answer 15

Decay
Interference
-Retrieval failure
-Repression
-Consolidation failure