Memory

Question 1

What is memory?

Answer 1

The way past events affect future function.

Question 2

Describe memory in a neurological sense.

Answer 2

It is the repeated firing of neurons in a systematic pattern.

Question 3

What is encoding?

Answer 3

Creating a mental representation or image.

Question 4

What is storage?

Answer 4

Increasing probability of future activation of image.

Question 5

What is retrieval?

Answer 5

Activation of the image/representation profile.

Question 6

What needs to be activated multiple times to translate it to long term memory?

Answer 6

retrieval

Question 7

Name 2 types of memory.

Answer 7

1. implicit

2. explicit

Question 8

What kind of memory is non-declarative?

Answer 8

implicit

Question 9

What kind of memory is declarative?

Answer 9

explicit

Question 10

What are 2 sub-types of explicit memory?

Answer 10

1. semantic

2. episodic/autobiographical

Question 11

What is another name for episodic memory?

Answer 11

autobiographical

Question 12

What is another name for autobiographical memory?

Answer 12

episodic

Question 13

Match the description to a type of memory:

somatic (body)

Answer 13

Implicit

Question 14

Match the description to a type of memory:

perceptual (senses) - can shape perception and explicit memory

Answer 14

implicit

Question 15

Match the description to a type of memory:

Unconscious behavioral, perceptual, and emotional learning

Answer 15

implicit

Question 16

Match the description to a type of memory:

Processed through amygdala, limbic, basil ganglia, motor or perceptual cortices

Answer 16

implicit

Question 17

Match the description to a type of memory:

Perceptual mental models of experiences encoded by 12 mos and compared to future ones.

Answer 17

implicit

Question 18

Match the description to a type of memory:

18 mos evocative memory-evoke sensory model to regulate self

Answer 18

implicit

Question 19

What is procedural memory?

Answer 19

memory for how to do something

Question 20

List some examples of procedural memory.

Answer 20

1. walking
2. riding a bike
3. writing
4. syntax
5. decoding/literacy

Question 21

What is an example of an impairment of procedural memory?

Answer 21

Language impairment

Question 22

What kind of memory is procedural memory?

Answer 22

implicit

Question 23

Match the description to a type of memory:

Factual or noesis

Answer 23

explicit and semantic

Question 24

Match the description to a type of memory:

Memory for words and concepts.

Answer 24

explicit and semantic

Question 25

Match the description to a type of memory: | Sense of self emotion + event across time-autonoesis

Answer 25

episodic/autobiographical AND explicit

Question 26

Match the description to a type of memory: | view of self across time

Answer 26

episodic/autobiographical AND explicit

Question 27

Match the description to a type of memory: | Co-constructed narratives with caregiver-sense-making of feelings

Answer 27

episodic/autobiographical AND explicit

Question 28

Match the description to a type of memory: memory for subjective experiences throughout time; ability to perceive the present moment as both a continuation of the past and as a prelude to the future

Answer 28

episodic/autobiographical AND explicit

Question 29

Match the description to a type of memory: | conscious, focused attention to encoding and recollection a.k.a. working memory

Answer 29

episodic/autobiographical AND explicit

Question 30

Match the description to a type of memory: | Rehearsal creates long term storage or cortical consolidation

Answer 30

episodic/autobiographical AND explicit

Question 31

Match the description to a type of memory: | reorganization/memory traces in frontal cortex

Answer 31

episodic/autobiographical AND explicit

Question 32

Match the description to a type of memory: | allows linking mental representations with others (Hwa-Froelich, in press)

Answer 32

episodic/autobiographical AND explicit

Question 33

In order to access episodic memory, what must one be able to access?

Answer 33

semantic memory

Question 34

What does semantic memory do for our episodic memory?

Answer 34

It allows us to talk about our episodic memory in a narrative way.

Question 35

Can people who have been in war have therapy for PTSD?

Answer 35

Only if they are able to access their episodic memory.

Question 36

In order to access one's episodic memory, what must one be able to access?

Answer 36

semantic memory