Memory: Models and Research
The means by which we retain and draw on our past experiences to use that information in the present
What is memory?
What is the visuospatial sketchpad?
What is the space where one can hold some visual images briefly?
What is knowledge representation?
What is Johnson-Laird's mental model?
What are mental representations that could take the form of propositions, mental models, or images?
What is a defining feature?
Give an example.
What is the episodic buffer?
What is the limited capacity system that is capable of binding info from the visuospatial sketchpad and phonological loop into long-term?
What are the two kinds of knowledge structures?
What is an interrelated example of a proposition, mental model, and an image?
What is a place of eternal bliss, what is heaven, and what are clouds and pearly white gates?
What is a node?
What are the cerebral cortex, cerebellum, amygdala, and hippocampus?
What are the 3 major forms of encoding?
What are acoustic, visual, and semantic?
What are two forms of external representation?
What are pictures and words?
What is a cognitive map?
What is an internal representation of our physical environment, centering on spatial relationships?
The process of going to the doctor, going on a first date, going to a ski resort, or going to class are all examples of processes that operate on
What is the difference between explicit and implicit memory?
What is conscious recollection vs info not consciously aware of?
What is consolidation?
What is the process of integrating new info into stored info?
What is the dual-code theory?
What is the theory that we can represent knowledge in the form of analogue (preserves main perceptual features) and symbolic code (arbitrary representation with given meaning)?
What are the three types of knowledge that humans use to form cognitive maps?
What are landmark knowledge, rout-road knowledge, and survey knowledge?
What is the parallel distributed processing model?
What is the theory that one can handle numerous cognitive operations at once through a network distributed across incalculable numbers of locations in the brain?
What is the self-reference effect?
What is showing a higher recall when asked to relate words meaningful to oneself?
What are three memory distortions?
What are absent-mindedness, suggestibility, and bias?
What is a proposition in the context of knowledge representation?
What is a form of representation that resembles the abstract form of meaning underlying a particular relationship between concepts?
What is the difference between declarative and procedural knowledge?
What is the knowledge that you can easily state vs the knowledge that you can act out easily?
What types of knowledge are human brain models based on?
What are procedural knowledge, classical and operant conditioning, habituation and sensitization, and priming?