Psych 9B: Memory Lecture Questions

Front 1

correctly recalling of event details, but incorrectly recalling their source

Back 1

source confusion

Front 2

MTL overlaps memories using overlapping representations, due to familiarity of related concepts

Back 2

semantic associations

Front 3

mistakenly combining pieces form memories of different actual events

Back 3

binding error

Front 4

T/F: Adrenaline triggers fight or flight response and increases retention

Back 4

True

Front 5

T/F: amygdala elicits fear response from stimuli and signals to remember something "important"

Back 5

True

Front 6

information is unavailable in lone-term memory but inaccessible

Back 6

blocking

Front 7

T/F: proper names are easier to remember because they do not have any associations with of attributes belonging to those individuals

Back 7

False

Front 8

unable to produce proper names , but able to perform other cognitive functions

Back 8

anomia

Front 9

T/F: Left Temporal Lobe makes links to a person's characteristics and name

Back 9

True

Front 10

forgetting that occurs with passage of time

Back 10

transience

Front 11

T/F: forgetting happens whether material is meaningful or not

Back 11

False; meaningful > non meaningful

Front 12

How reasonable it s to generalize results from an experiments to similar experiments involving participants, places, times?

Back 12

external validity

Front 13

How reasonable is it to infer that the manipulation in an experiment is caused by observed change?

Back 13

internal validity

Front 14

T/F: learning in one session is greater for memorization rather than distributive learning

Back 14

False; distributive > one session

Front 15

T/F: continuing practice after "learned" memory decreases retention

Back 15

False

Front 16

knowledge stored associatively as a network of associated concepts

Back 16

priming

Front 17

Memory of retrieval initiates process of _____________ ______________

Back 17

spreading activation

Front 18

T/F: neurons respond to certain stimuli differently every time

Back 18

False; when exposed to the same stimuli, certain neurons are activated

Front 19

something physical has changed

Back 19

storage mechanism

Front 20

convention that gives meaning to the physical change

Back 20

storage code

Front 21

part of the brain in charge with episodic, reinstating neural activity with specific events, and distinct representations to each stimulus

Back 21

hippocampus

Front 22

part of brain in charge with statistical regularities of the environment, generalizes stimuli, and semantic memories

Back 22

Medial Temporal Lobe (MTL)

Front 23

T/F: Strengthening is initiated by a specific pattern of neural stimulation

Back 23

True

Front 24

T/F: Long-term memory is only stored in the hippocampus

Back 24

False, only short-term memory is located in hippocampus, long-term memory is is stored throughout the brain

Front 25

part of the brain that regulates Central Nervous System (CNS) , sends signals down to spinal cords

ex. motor functions, reflexes

Back 25

Brain stem & cerebelum

Front 26

part of the brain in charge of language recognition/production & face recognition

Back 26

temporal

Front 27

part of brain in charge of low level aspects of vision, eye, sight

Back 27

occipital

Front 28

part of brain in charge of directing attention & logistics knowledge

Back 28

parietal

Front 29

part of brain in charge of language, thinking, executive, memory, and motor

Back 29

frontal

Front 30

towards middle --><--

Back 30

medial

Front 31

towards sides <-- -->

Back 31

lateral

Front 32

back of head -->

Back 32

posterior

Front 33

closer to face <--

Back 33

anterior

Front 34

top of brain

Back 34

superior/dorsal

Front 35

bottom of brain

Back 35

inferior/ventral

Front 36

absent of mindedness

Back 36

problems with acquisition

Front 37

problem with storage

Back 37

transience

Front 38

problem with retrieval

Back 38

blocking