Studying Memory
The disease that begins as difficulty remembering new information and progresses into an inability to do everyday tasks.
Alzheimer’s Disease
Which brain structure serves as a “save button” for certain explicit memories?
When emotions trigger stress hormones that influence memory formation, what brain structure is active?
Amygdala
What's the term for when someone forgets where they learned something?
Source Amnesia
This phenomenon, where information is better retained when learning is spread out over time rather than crammed into a single session, is known as what effect?
The spacing effect
One of the three retention measures used when answering a fill-in-the-blank question on a test.
To Recall
Phenomenon in which we are unable to remember the associations and skills we learned in our first 4 years in our adult lives.
Infantile Amnesia
Where would semantic memories be processed?
The Hippocampus
What term describes memories that feel real but often only capture the general idea of an event, not the specifics?
False Memories
During this natural state, the brain reorganizes and consolidates information, facilitating long-term memory formation. What is it?
Sleep
The way in which we encode short-term memory.
Rehearsal
External cues that, sometimes without our awareness, activate associations that help us retrieve memories.
Priming
Which brain structure has damage when someone has trouble remembering verbal information?
The left hippocampus
What term describes the unconscious process of pushing distressing memories out of awareness?
To repress
Enhancing your memory by recalling information in the same setting or mood where you learned it. This is referred to as what effect?
The Context effect
Mentally repeating a password long enough to enter it online is an example of?
Auditory Rehearsal
Neural basis for learning and memory.
LTP — Long-Term Potentiation
This brain structure receives input from the cortex but does not send information back.
Basal Ganglia
What term describes the inability to form new memories after a specific event or injury, famously portrayed in the film "Memento"?
Anterograde Amnesia
This memory phenomenon suggests that retrieval is often more efficient when an individual is in the same physical or mental state as when the memory was encoded. What is it called?
State-dependent learning
Whether someone hears eye-scream as ice cream or I scream depends on how the context and our experience guide our interpreting and encoding of the sounds. The psychological term that explains this is
Working Memory
Significantly emotional events may trigger ______ ________.
Flashbulb Memories
If someone recalls a visual party scene, which brain region did they obtain that from?
The right frontal lobe
This method, often used to recover memories, is known for producing especially unreliable recollections, despite their perceived vividness. What is it?
Hypnosis
The device in improving memory that creates rhythmic rhymes such as “I before E except after C”.
Mnemonic cues