Learning Curve: 7b Building Memories: Encoding
Meaningful _____ helps in remembering information from novel, abstract paragraphs.
context
Mr. Nydam suffers amnesia and is unable to remember playing golf on a particular course. But the longer he plays the course, the more his game improves. His experience illustrates the difference in:
explicit memory and implicit memory.
The network that processes and stores explicit memories includes the:
frontal lobes and hippocampus.
Having read a story once, certain amnesia victims will read it faster the second time even though they can't recall having seen the story before. They have most likely suffered damage to the _____.
hippocampus
Kirsten 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 for 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
Having read a story once, certain amnesia victims will read it faster the second time even though they can't recall having seen the story before. They have MOST likely suffered damage to the:
hippocampus.
The hippocampus and brain cortex display simultaneous activity rhythms during sleep. This supports the process of _____.
memory consolidation
Those suffering from depression are more likely to have their memories affected by priming negative associations. This is known as:
mood-congruent memory.
At a block party, Cyndi meets nine new neighbors. Moments later, she can only remember the names of the first three and last two neighbors she met. Her experience illustrates:
the serial position effect.
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 for 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