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MOD 24
Question | Answer |
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What stores and processes your explicit memories | frontal lobe and hippocampus |
What lobe would be activated when recalling a password and holding it in working memory | Left frontal lobe |
Calling up a visual party scene would activate which lobe | Right frontal lobe |
Hippocampus | a temporal lobe neural center located in the limbic system, is the brains equivalent of a save button for explicit memories |
when do people have trouble remembering verbal information but no trouble recalling visual designs and locations | left-hippocampus damage |
when do people have trouble remembering visual designs and locations but no trouble recalling verbal information | right-hippocampus damage |
what functions do the subregions of the hippocampus serve as? | 1. when learning names and faces 2. when memory champions engage in spatial mnemonics 3. (the rear area) processes spatial memory |
What plays a key role in forming and storing the implicit memories created by classical conditioning? | The cerebellum |
What 2 influences contribute to infantile amnesia | 1. we index much of our explicit memory using words that nonspeaking children have not learned 2. the hippocampus is one of the last brain structures to mature |
flash bulb memory | a clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event |
When people are given a drug that blocks the effects of stress hormones, what happens? | they will later have more trouble remembering the details of an upsetting story |
serotonin helps cells do what? | become more efficient at transmitting signals |
long term potentiation | -an increase in a cells firing potential after brief rapid stimulation -neural basis for learning and memory |