CogSci Exam III Alice O'Toole
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memory - ✔✔experience that changes brain and behavior
What aspect of memory do psychologists study? - ✔✔types, performance
What aspect of memory do neuroscientists study? - ✔✔neural and cellular basis
What aspect of memory do biologists study? - ✔✔molecular basis
What aspect of memory do applied psychologists study? - ✔✔reliability
What aspect of memory do clinical psychologists study? - ✔✔mental health aspects
declarative memory - ✔✔memory for facts, ideas, and events
non-declarative memory - ✔✔motor skills, habits, classically conditioned reflexes,
habituation, and sensitization
sensory store - ✔✔the initial, momentary storage of information, lasting only an instant
short-term memory - ✔✔activated memory that holds a few items briefly, such as the
seven digits of a phone number while dialing, before the information is stored or
forgotten
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, long-term memory - ✔✔the relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the
memory system. Includes knowledge, skills, and experiences.
Multi-Store Model of Memory - ✔✔Atkinson & Shiffrin, 1968; sensory store to short-
term to long-term
procedural memory - ✔✔knowledge of how to do things
semantic memory - ✔✔memory for meaning, facts, and stories
episodic memories - ✔✔memory for events in which we participate
What are the aspects of processing? - ✔✔encoding, storage, retrieval, and forgetting
What are factors that affect encoding? - ✔✔elaboration and mnemonic devices,
similarity and distinctiveness, and expertise or meaningfulness
What part of the brain activates for deep encoding? - ✔✔left inferior prefrontal cortex
consolidation - ✔✔the process by which short term memories become long term
memories
What part of the brain consolidates cognitive memories? - ✔✔hippocampus
What part of the brain consolidates emotional memories? - ✔✔amygdala
Damasio Convergence Zone Theory - ✔✔no single location for memories, memories
consist of sensory fragments bound together by association, and remembering is the
binding and reactivating of sensory fragments
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
memory - ✔✔experience that changes brain and behavior
What aspect of memory do psychologists study? - ✔✔types, performance
What aspect of memory do neuroscientists study? - ✔✔neural and cellular basis
What aspect of memory do biologists study? - ✔✔molecular basis
What aspect of memory do applied psychologists study? - ✔✔reliability
What aspect of memory do clinical psychologists study? - ✔✔mental health aspects
declarative memory - ✔✔memory for facts, ideas, and events
non-declarative memory - ✔✔motor skills, habits, classically conditioned reflexes,
habituation, and sensitization
sensory store - ✔✔the initial, momentary storage of information, lasting only an instant
short-term memory - ✔✔activated memory that holds a few items briefly, such as the
seven digits of a phone number while dialing, before the information is stored or
forgotten
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, long-term memory - ✔✔the relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the
memory system. Includes knowledge, skills, and experiences.
Multi-Store Model of Memory - ✔✔Atkinson & Shiffrin, 1968; sensory store to short-
term to long-term
procedural memory - ✔✔knowledge of how to do things
semantic memory - ✔✔memory for meaning, facts, and stories
episodic memories - ✔✔memory for events in which we participate
What are the aspects of processing? - ✔✔encoding, storage, retrieval, and forgetting
What are factors that affect encoding? - ✔✔elaboration and mnemonic devices,
similarity and distinctiveness, and expertise or meaningfulness
What part of the brain activates for deep encoding? - ✔✔left inferior prefrontal cortex
consolidation - ✔✔the process by which short term memories become long term
memories
What part of the brain consolidates cognitive memories? - ✔✔hippocampus
What part of the brain consolidates emotional memories? - ✔✔amygdala
Damasio Convergence Zone Theory - ✔✔no single location for memories, memories
consist of sensory fragments bound together by association, and remembering is the
binding and reactivating of sensory fragments
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