Memory Systems and Processes

These flashcards cover key concepts related to memory systems, including types of memory, brain structures involved, and various memory retrieval strategies.

Hippocampus

A neural center located in the limbic system that helps process explicit memories for storage.

Flashbulb Memories

Clear, detailed recollections of emotionally significant moments or events.

Long-term Potentiation (LTP)

An increase in a cell's neural firing potential that is the basis for learning and memory.

Context-Dependent Memory

The improved recall of specific information when the context present at encoding and retrieval are the same.

State-Dependent Memory

The phenomenon where information learned in one state (e.g., drunk or sober) is more easily recalled when in that same state.

Serial Position Effect

The tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list, known as the recency effect and primacy effect.

Priming

The activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory.

What heppens to memory from damage of left hippocampus?

People have trouble with remembering verbal information

What happens to memory from damage of right hippocampus?

Causes trouble remembering visual designs and locations

Cerebellum

Plays key role in forming and storing implicit memories created by classical conditioning

What happens to memory from damage to cerebellum?

People can’t develop certain conditioned reflexes

Basal Ganglia

deep brain structures involved in motor movement and facilitate formation of our procedural memories for skills

Recall

measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information leared earlier (fill in the blank test)

Recognition

a measure of memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned(multiple choice)

Relearning

measure of memory that assesses the amount of time saved when learning material again