Overview of LTM
Name of the memory process (stage) by which we get information into LTM.
What is encoding?
Condition in which a person cannot remember events that happened before a brain injury or traumatic event.
What is retrograde amnesia?
Memory system that supports "mental time travel" (as well as your ability to remember what you did last weekend).
What is episodic memory?
These two mental states (or processes) are not present when a person expresses an implicit memory.
What are awareness (that they are remembering) or the intention to remember.
Episodic memory, future projection, and mind wandering all rely on this brain network.
What is the Default Mode Network (DMN)?
Consolidation -- the process by which memories are strengthened over time -- is most associated with this processing stage of memory.
What is storage?
Memory impairment associated with damage to the hippocampus.
What is anterograde amnesia?
Another name for general knowledge.
What is semantic memory?
Term used to describe the (often positive) increase in performance due to the expression of an implicit memory.
What is priming?
Word used to describe people's thoughts about the future.
What is prospection?
According to your instructor, this non-mnemonic cognitive process is the gateway to (explicit) memory.
What is attention?
Underlying condition for why neurosurgeons operated on the brain of patient HM.
What is (drug-resistant) epilepsy?
Name given to a memory that is not consciously remembered, but influences performance nevertheless.
What is implicit memory?
One of the first tasks to show implicit memory was "mirror drawing" which is thought to reflect this memory system.
What is procedural memory?
Theory which says that we use (fragments of) our episodic memories to imagine different future scenarios.
What is the Constructive Episodic Simulation Hypothesis?
Memory process (stage) in which previously stored information is accessed and used.
What is retrieval?
Russian name for the condition whereby long-term alcoholism leads to hippocampal damage and thus anterograde amnesia.
What is Korsakoff's syndrome?
Although not really stored there, "muscle memories" refer to the motor-based skills that are stored in this system.
What is procedural memory?
Name given to implicit memory tasks that challenge the perceptual system?
What are data-driven tests? (cf. conceptually-driven tests).
Phrase, often used in research with children, that describes people's ability to take another person's perspective.
What is Theory of Mind?
The two processes that make-up the dual process model of recognition memory.
What are recollection and familiarity?
"Legal" name for temporal gradient in retrograde amnesia, whereby recent memories are more likely to be forgotten than remote memories.
What is Robot's Law?
Two of the three sub-forms of non-declarative memory.
What are procedural, priming, & conditioning.
Term used to describe a pattern of data wherein a variable (such as amnesia vs normal) affects one task but not another.
What is a dissociation? (such as an implicit/explicit dissociation).
Term used to describe the fact that memories are not recordings of the past, but instead reflect assumptions, biases, inferences, & guesses about what must have happened.
What is memory as reconstruction. (cf. memory as reproduction).