Functions
Brain Involvement
Problems
Enhancements
Key Terms/Vocabulary
100

What is visual encoding?

The encoding of images

100

This complex brain structure is embedded deep unto the temporal lobe. It's major role is learning and memory.

What is the Hippocampus?

100

This type of amnesia is characterized by the inability to recall events that occurred before a traumatic incident. What is it called?

Retrograde Amnesia

100

is the loss of long-term memory that occurs as the result of disease, physical trauma, or psychological trauma

Amnesia

100

memory error in which you confuse the source of your information

Misattribution

200

What are the three processes of memory functions?

Encoding, storage, and retrieval

200

It is part of the brain that controls important cognitive skills in humans, such as emotional expression, problem solving, memory, language, and judgment.

What is the frontal lobe?

200

This progressive neurological disorder is characterized by memory loss, impaired thinking, and personality changes. What is the most common form of dementia?

Alzheimer's disease

200

refers to loss of information from long-term memory

Forgetting

200

after exposure to additional and possibly inaccurate information, a person may misremember the original event

Misinformation Effect Paradigm

300

Give an example from the book about active rehearsal being moved into long-term memory.

The way most children learn their ABCs is by singing the alphabet song.

300

It's main function is in emotional response; including feelings of happiness, fear, anger, and anxiety.

What is the Amygdala?

300

True or False: Alzheimer's disease is the leading cause of dementia and primarily affects older adults.

True

300

you cannot remember new information

anterograde amnesia,

300

lapses in memory that are caused by breaks in attention or our focus being somewhere else

Absentmindedness

400

What’s the difference between automatic processing and effortful processing?

Automatic processing usually is done without consciousness, while effortful processing takes time and effort.

400

The area of the brain that coordinates many activities of the nervous and endocrine system.

What is Hypothalamus?

400

This term refers to the ability to hold and manipulate a small amount of information in the mind for a brief period of time, typically around 20-30 seconds. What is it called?

Short-term memory

400

The loss of memory for events that occurred prior to the trauma.

Retrograde amnesia

400

some parts of the brain can take over for damaged parts in forming and storing memories

Equipotentiality Hypothesis

500

What is the difference between episodic and semantic memory?

Episodic is information about events we have personally experienced, while semantic is knowledge about words, concepts, and language-based knowledge and facts.

500

Second largest lobe of the human brain that's functions revolve around hearing and selective listening as well as encoding memory.

What is the Temporal Lobe?

500

In the movie "Memento," the protagonist suffers from this type of amnesia, where he cannot remember events that occurred prior to a specific incident. What is the name for this condition?

Anterograde Amnesia

500

describes the effects of misinformation from external sources that leads to the creation of false memories


Suggestibility

500

tendency for an individual to have better memory for information that relates to oneself in comparison to material that has less personal relevance

 Self-Reference Effect