How Memory Functions
True or False: In order to retain information a lot better it is suggested to Study for 4 hours nonstop rather than studying across time in short durations?
False
Where is the cerebellum located in the brain?
Hint: Front, middle or back
Back
Explanation: The cerebellum a part of the brain that controls balance, coordination, and other motor functions.
What is amnesia?
The loss of long-term memory that occurs as the result of disease, physical trauma, or psychological trauma.
Explanation:
Anterograde amnesia
Commonly caused by brain trauma
Can’t remember new information, although you can remember information and events that happened prior to your injury.
loss of memory for events that occurred prior to the trauma.
Can’t remember some or even all of their past. (ex. Not recognizing any family members when awaken in the hospital after an accident)
What is the process of encode, store, and retrieve information over different periods of time?
Memory
What is the most commonly used strategy to help remember new information?
Rehearsal / Repetition
What does the amygdala do?
Encodes memories at a deeper level when the event is emotionally arousing.
Explanation: The amygdala regulates emotions like fear n aggression; it plays a part in how memories are stored because storage is influenced by stress hormones / sparks fear memories. It's also involved in memory consolidation :).
Memory Consolidation: The process of transferring new learning into longterm memory
What is memory construction?
Formulation of new memories
Explanation:
Pretty straight forward. Also another similar term→memory reconstruction, which is the process of bringing up old memories
What are the most effective ways to enter that important memories are well encoded?
Easier to recall when it's meaningful.
What is the term best used to help retain information like dates or numbers?
Chunking
What is the hippocampus involved in?
Specifically spatial memory
Explanation: Same as encoding, storing, and recalling information about an environment and one's orientation. *Also when memory tasks are like memory tests.*
Can memories fade overtime?
This term is called transience.
True or False: Automatic processing details time, space, frequency and meaning of words.
True
What affect does exercising have in your brain & what area does it affect?
It promotes neurogenesis & growth of new brain cells in hippocampus.
What happens if our hippocampus is injured?
Unable to process new declarative memories
Explanation: Hippocampus also gives info to cortical regions that give memories meaning and connect them to other memories. Also plays a part in memory consolidation :)
What do you guys think absentmindedness means? (hint: read as absent mind)
Memory error, describes lapses in memory caused by breaks in attention or our focus being somewhere else.
(ex: Walking into a room for something, but forgetting what it was)
What is a type of declarative memory that contains information about events we have personally experienced?
Episodic memory
Fill in the blank: In order to help you remember new material we can make connections to helps us remember, we can relate the material to something we already know or we can connect the material to something personal to us in order to help recall the information. This is called the ____.
Self Reference Effect
Which neurotransmitters are considered important to creating new memories? *Hint: Dopamine, serotonin, glutamate, and acetylcholine
Any
What do you guys think the word blocking means regarding memory?
Not being able to access information from one's brain/memory.
Explanation:
Having the information right on the tip of your tongue but you just can’t seem to put the answer together.
Fill in the blank: ____ is the certain of a permanent record of information.
Storage