Week 5

Question 1

Retrograde amnesia

Answer 1

Loss of memories from our past
(typically from recent past)

Question 2

Anterograde Amnesia

Answer 2

Inability to form new memories from our experiences

Question 3

Patient H.M takeaway

Answer 3

• Hippocampus is crucial for storage of feelings or thoughts
• Declaritive memory is located in a different area than procedural memory

Question 4

Consolidation

Answer 4

A process incolving the slow conversion of info into long term storage

Question 5

What is amygdala associated with

Answer 5

Emotions

Question 6

Alzheimers

Answer 6

A degenerative brain disease

Question 7

Infantile amnesia

Answer 7

Inability of adults to remember personal experiences that took place before an early age

Question 8

Flashbulb memories

Answer 8

• Emotionally intense events
• Due to rehearsal of memories inconsistencies were created
• basic aspects of memory are accurate but vivid details likely arent

Question 9

Cryptomnesia

Answer 9

Failure to recognize that our ideas originated with someone else

Question 10

Misinformation Effect

Answer 10

Creation of fake memories by giving false information of an event after it took place