Functions
What is visual encoding?
The encoding of images
This complex brain structure is embedded deep unto the temporal lobe. It's major role is learning and memory.
What is the Hippocampus?
This type of amnesia is characterized by the inability to recall events that occurred before a traumatic incident. What is it called?
Retrograde Amnesia
is the loss of long-term memory that occurs as the result of disease, physical trauma, or psychological trauma
Amnesia
memory error in which you confuse the source of your information
Misattribution
What are the three processes of memory functions?
Encoding, storage, and retrieval
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?
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
refers to loss of information from long-term memory
Forgetting
after exposure to additional and possibly inaccurate information, a person may misremember the original event
Misinformation Effect Paradigm
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.
It's main function is in emotional response; including feelings of happiness, fear, anger, and anxiety.
What is the Amygdala?
True or False: Alzheimer's disease is the leading cause of dementia and primarily affects older adults.
True
you cannot remember new information
anterograde amnesia,
lapses in memory that are caused by breaks in attention or our focus being somewhere else
Absentmindedness
What’s the difference between automatic processing and effortful processing?
Automatic processing usually is done without consciousness, while effortful processing takes time and effort.
The area of the brain that coordinates many activities of the nervous and endocrine system.
What is Hypothalamus?
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
The loss of memory for events that occurred prior to the trauma.
Retrograde amnesia
some parts of the brain can take over for damaged parts in forming and storing memories
Equipotentiality Hypothesis
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.
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?
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
describes the effects of misinformation from external sources that leads to the creation of false memories
Suggestibility
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