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1
Q

What are two types of explicit memories?

A

Facts and events

2
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What are the 4 types of implicit memories?

A
  • Priming
  • Procedural/Skills
  • Associative learning
  • Non-associative learning
3
Q

What part of the brain encodes priming implicit memories?

A

neocortex

4
Q

What part of the brain encodes procedural implicit memories?

A

striatum

5
Q

What part of the brain encodes associative learning?

A

Emotional response = amygdala

Skeletal musculature = cerebellum

6
Q

What part of the brain encodes non-associative (eg. habituation and sensitization) implicit learning?

A

Reflex systems

7
Q

Why are procedural memories harder to form than any other?

A

Harder to train the motor system

8
Q

What are episodic memories tagged with?

A

Temporal and spatial context

9
Q

True or false? Episodic memories are instantly learned in single exposure without trying to remember?

A

True

10
Q

What are semantic memories?

A

“I know” memories, such as knowledge. Learned in single exposure but strengthened with repetition

11
Q

What is it called when you can draw an object, but not name it?

A

Associative agnosia

12
Q

What are the four interchangeable steps of explicit memory formation?

A
  • Encoding
  • Consolidation (long term memory formation)
  • storage
  • Retrieval
13
Q

What part of the brain works to encode memories?

A

The hippocampus

14
Q

What part of the brain works to retrieve memories?

A

Mostly pre-frontal areas

15
Q

What are four things that happen when we see a face? (memory wise)

A
  1. Initial processing
  2. Hippocampus helps long term memory formation
  3. Over time, transfers completely to association areas
  4. Damage to association areas should impair long term memories.
16
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Where are visual memories stored?

A

Further down processing, in association areas.

17
Q

When you dream and recall images, what part of the brain is active that is not usually active when recalling memories?

A

The primary visual cortex

18
Q

What part of the brain increases consolidation of emotional memories?

A

The amygdala

19
Q

What part of the brain assists the hippocampus in memory formation?

A

The basolateral nucleus

20
Q

What stage of sleep are memories consolidated in?

A

Stage 2 nonREM sleep

21
Q

How are false memories made at a neural level?

A

The hippocampus connects wrong memory fragments