Disabilities/Diseases
Memory
Forgetting
Biological Foundations of Memory
Retention
100
This is a general term describing memory loss
What is amnesia?
100
These memories are our conscious memories of facts and experiences
What are explicit/declarative memories?
100
This is the distortion of one's memories as a result of misleading information
What is the misinformation effect?
100
Emotional center of the brain
What is the amygdala?
100
This is the encoding on a basic level, simply based on structure or appearance of words
What is shallow encoding?
200
This disease begins as difficulty to remember information, and slowly progresses into inability to do everyday tasks
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
200
These memories are our skills and conditioned associations
What are implicit/nondeclarative memories?
200
This term is French for "already seen"
What is déjà vu?
200
This brain structure is involved in the formation of explicit memories
What is the hippocampus?
200
By extracting meaning, we improve this process
What is encoding/mnemonics?
300
This disorder is marked by inattention and hyperactivity that interferes with functioning or development
What is ADHD?
300
These memories, typically emotional, are extremely clear and vivid
What are flashbulb memories?
300
Faulty memory for how, when, or where information was learned/imagined
What is source amnesia/source misattribution?
300
These are deep brain structures involved in motor movement
What are the basal ganglia?
300
These memories were theorized by Sigmund Freud to be repressed, but have been shown to be remembered but intrusive
What is a traumatic/emotional memory?
400
This condition of neurodevelopmental origin mainly affects the ease with which a person reads, writes, and spells
What is Dyslexia?
400
This is a momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli
What is echoic memory?
400
This phenomenon tells us that memories are often not faded, but are simply not retrieved
What is the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon?
400
Damage to this organ prevents the development of conditioned reflexes
What is the cerebellum?
400
During the retrieval of memories, this process alters the memory before storing it again
What is reconsolidation?
500
This is a loss of cognitive function, but is not necessarily a specific disease
What is dementia?
500
Our tendency to recall best the first and last items in a list
What is the serial position effect?
500
People with anterograde amnesia still have the ability to make this form of memories
What are implicit memories/skills?
500
People with damage to this have trouble remembering verbal information
What is the left hippocampus?
500
This scientist measured his retention using nonsense syllables
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?