Memory Disorders
What is Dementia?
Dementia is the progressive deterioration of cognitive functions.
What is short term memory?
Temporally stores information in your brain usually forgotten within 20 seconds.
What stage could hold information for a life time?
Long term memory
How many stages of memory are there?
3
What is Alzheimers disease?
Alzheimers disease is the most common cause of dementia.
What is long term memory?
Stores information in your brain for potentially a lifetime.
What stage is known as the "workshop"?
Short term memory
What is a cue or hint that helps trigger a piece of information stored in long term memory?
Retrieval cue
What causes amnesia?
It is usually caused by brain surgery or a injury.
What is explicit memory?
It is memory with conscious recall.
What stage is limited to 7 items?
Short term memory
Long term memory is clustered. What does clustered mean?
Grouping items/memories into related groups
What is anterograde amnesia?
It is forward acting amnesia which disrupts ability to form new memories.
What a flashbulb memory?
Memories you form after an important or dramatic event
What stage fades after about 3 seconds?
Sensory memory
What are one of the theories about why we forget?
Motivated forgetting, interference theory, and decay theory
What is retrograde amnesia?
Backward acting amnesia which disrupts process of memory consolidation. (or long term memory)
What is semantic memory?
What stage holds 3 different types of information?
Long term memory
Is it a myth or science that human memory functions like a video recorder?
Myth