Memory Part II Exam 3

Allocentric

Making navigation choices based on the relative position of features of the environment rather than learning about actions/objects relative to their perspective.

Salient

Most noticeable or important features.

Semantic/Episodic/Explicit Memories

Processed through a network that includes your frontal lobes and hippocampus.

Hippocampus

One of the last brain structures to mature; Active as the brain forms explicit memories, holds elements of a memory that allow it to be recalled.

Memory Consolidation

Process of storing memories; Memories migrate to the cortex for storage; Supported by sleep.

Cerebellum

Important for forming and storing implicit memories created by classical conditioning.

Basal Ganglia

Involved in motor movement and help form procedural memories for skills.

Forgetting

Fail to encode memory, fail to retrieve it, misremember memory, remember false things.

Hyperthymesia

Highly superior autobiographical memory can interfere with life; Enlarged brain areas and increased brain activity to memory centers.

Anterograde Amnesia

Inability to form new memories.

Retrograde Amnesia

Inability to remember information from one's past.

Storage Decay

Physical changes in the brain that cause the gradual loss of memory.

Proactive

Older memories make it more difficult to remember new information.

Retroactive

New learning disrupts memory for older information.

Positive Transfer

Previously learned information facilitates learning of new information.

Freud

Repressed memories protect a person's self concept and minimize anxiety; can still be retrieved later.

Reconsolidation

Stored memories, when retrieved, are potentially altered before being stored again.

Source Amnesia

Faulty memory for how, when, or where information was learned or imagined.

Stephen Ceci and Maggie Bruck

Studied effect of suggestive interviewing techniques, showing that preschoolers produced false stories when asked leading questions.