Module 24: Storing & Retrieving Memories

Estelle remembers a night she was mugged and brutally beaten. This memory probably involves not only her hippocampus, but also her ____ because of the emotional nature of the event.

amygdala

Two brain areas involved in the formation of implicit memories are the _____ and the _____.

basal ganglia; cerebellum

In daily life, when one says one remembers some information or a piece of knowledge, one means that one is able to use it. Memory, therefore, entails not only encoding and storage but also _____.

retrieval

People's ability to recall an item from a list depends on where on the list the item occurs. This is known as the _____ effect.

serial position

If you just had an argument with your significant other, you are likely to view him or her very negatively as a person. This is BEST seen as reflecting:

state-dependent memory.

If you learn a list of chemistry terms while you are in a great mood, you have a better chance of recalling that list if you are in the same kind of mood when you take the exam. This is known as:

state-dependent memory.

Lara is trying to remember events from her life as an 18-month-old. However, as hard as she might try, she has no conscious memory of anything that occurred before her third birthday. This is likely due to the fact that her _____, which is involved in storing explicit memories, was not fully developed at that age.

hippocampus

Six-year-old Fiona has no memory of a trip she took to the hospital when she was 2 years old, yet the rest of her family recalls what happened in vivid detail. Her inability to remember this event is known as _____ amnesia.

infantile

Sonya is trying to remember events from her life as an 18-month-old. However, as hard as she might try, she has no conscious memory of anything that occurred before her third birthday. This is likely due to the fact that her hippocampus, which is involved in storing explicit memories, was not fully developed at that age. This inability to remember events when she was 3 years old and younger is called _____.

infantile amnesia

The hippocampus and brain cortex display simultaneous activity rhythms during sleep. This supports the process of:

memory consolidation.

In the process of retrieving a specific memory from a web of associations a person needs to activate one of the strands that leads to it. This is known as:

priming

The phenomena of forgetting information learned while intoxicated until the person is once again intoxicated BEST reflects:

state-dependent memory.