What is the acquisition stage of memory?

How we get info from environment into system

What was the Repetition Priming Test?

HM would be primed with a word after seeing it on a list the previous day

What is associative conditioning?

Cues that might predict what is happening next

Physically changed set of neurons storing a particular memory

What is the standard consolidation theory?

Hippocampus acts as temporary storage area for memories

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1
What's another name for the general category of explicit memories?
Implicit
Semantic
Episodic
Declarative
2
Our capacity for long-term memory is estimated to be about 30 years.
False
True
3
Which memory stores information like facts and NOT experiences?
Episodic
Semantic
4
Where is our explicit memory located in the brain?
Ventral frontal lobe
Cerebellum
Medial temporal lobe
Hypothalamus
5
Which of these tasks showed that HM still had implicit memory?
Digit Span +1 Test
Mirror Drawing Test
Muscle Movement Test
Block Sequence Test
6
What is the acquisition stage of memory?
How we maintain the changes to our NS
How we access the memories we have stored
How we get info from environment into system
The process that changes the NS due to info
7
Experiences change our nervous system which then changes our behavior.
False
True
8
What was the Repetition Priming Test?
HM would be primed with a word after seeing it on a list the previous day
HM would be asked to recall what he had for lunch that day
Given a drawing and asked to trace it over and over again
HM would tap a sequence of blocks based on what he saw
9
Haptic memory is what type of sensory memory?
Sounds
Touch
Smells
Sights
10
How can we increase the number of items we can remember at once?
Creating smaller units of information
Saying the items aloud
Chunking the items
Writing them down
11
HM had an intact implicit memory.
True
False
12
It is typically hard to verbally describe what is happening in our implicit memory?
True
False
13
What is associative conditioning?
Cues that might predict what is happening next
How to do physical tasks like riding a bike
Habituating or getting used to something (less reaction)
We can access and react to info with just a little piece of the puzzle
14
Approximately how many items can our short-term/working memory hold?
16
7
10
3
15
What is an engram?
A way to help us better remember and store items in our memory
A storage area for all of our long-term memories
Physically changed pathways through the frontal lobe of the brain
Physically changed set of neurons storing a particular memory
16
What is the standard consolidation theory?
Hippocampus and other structures store memories as they occur
We create engrams when we have similar, yet new experiences
Hippocampus acts as temporary storage area for memories
17
What is anterograde amnesia?
Inability to form new memories
Can't remember what happened in the past
18
Which of these is NOT an example of learning?
Cognitive
Social
Over-stimulation
Physical
19
There is a limit to how much sensory information can come in at any point in time.
False
True

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