Brain Structures
What is the name of the small, sea-horse-shaped structure in the temporal lobe critical for forming new long-term memories?
Hippocampus
What type of memory allows you to perform tasks like riding a bike?
Procedural Memory
What is the common condition is characterised by a progressive decline in memory ?
Dementia
What is the general term for any device used to assist memory ?
Mnemonic
In the movie Finding Nemo, this blue tang fish suffers from severe short-term memory loss.
Dory
What term describes the brain's ability to change and adapt by forming new neural connections ?
Neuroplasticity
What type of short-term memory acts as a "mental workspace"?
Working Memory
What is the specific type of amnesia involves the inability to recall events that happened before a brain injury ?
Retrograde Amnesia
What strategy involves breaking down long information, like a phone number ?
Chunking
Psychologist George Miller famously claimed that the average human can hold about this many items in their short-term memory at once.
7
What is called the "emotional center" of the brain ?
Amygdala
What is the category of explicit memory involves the storage of specific personal events ?
Episodic Memory
What type of phenomenon occurs when you are certain you know a word, but cannot quite pull it from your memory at that moment ?
Tip-of-the-tongue
What is known as the "Memory Palace"?
Method of Loci
Created by Arthur Conan Doyle, this detective famously compared the human brain to an empty "attic" that should only be filled with useful facts.
Sherlock Holmes
What is the process by which a temporary memory is transformed into a long-term one ?
Consolidation
What type of long-term memory stores general knowledge, facts, and concepts ?
Semantic Memory
What psychological term refers to the tendency to remember that first and last items in a list better than the middle ones ?
Serial Position Effect
What music-based mnemonic helps millions of children learn the 26 letters in the English language ?
Alphabet song
Research shows that this type of legal testimony, often given by people who saw a crime, is surprisingly unreliable and easy to manipulate.
Eyewitness
What are the microscopic gaps between neurons ?
Synapses
What is the briefest form of memory ?
Sensory Memory or Iconic Memory
What French term refers to the eerie feeling that a completely new situation has been experienced before ?
Déjà Vu
What order of operations in math, uses "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally," as the acronym ?
PEMDAS
This is the popular "P-word" for the ability to remember an image in perfect detail after seeing it only once.
Photographic Memory