Psych 115 Memory 1 Study Questions and Correct Answers
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PSYC 115
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PSYC 115
Learning experience dependent changes in behavior. When your behavioral responses are updated or changed as a function of your past experiences. - your behavior changes because of past experiences.
Memory ability for those experience dependent changes to persist. An experience you can still retrie...
Psych 115 Memory 1 Study Questions
and Correct Answers
Learning ✅experience dependent changes in behavior. When your behavioral
responses are updated or changed as a function of your past experiences.
- your behavior changes because of past experiences.
Memory ✅ability for those experience dependent changes to persist. An experience
you can still retrieve in the future and use it to guide your present behavior.
- some experience that gets stored or persists in your brain.
Why are there different forms of memories? ✅There are different forms of memory
because there are different brain systems for each of these types of memories.
Episodic memory ✅storing away information about your personal experiences or
episodes in your life. Whenever you recall, retrieve, remember past experiences you've
had in the past. (type of declarative memory)
Non-declarative Memory ✅Gain experiences that are related to motor skills,
conditioning processes (fear or reward conditioning, etc). Doesn't reflect information that
has to do personal, discreet, and rich experiences, but it has to do with repetition based
acquisitions of skills and content.
- Skill Learning
- Priming
- Conditioning
Learning and Memory are ✅INTERRELATED!
What are the two brain systems that are responsible for storing away different types of
experiences? ✅Declarative & Non-Declarative
Declarative ✅characterized by flexibly accessible, relational memory for past events
and facts. Memory that you can discuss with others. Info stored in a consciously
retrievable form; you can retrieve them whenever you'd like.
Declarative Memory is also known as... ✅EXPLICIT MEMORY
Episodic ✅(Type of Declarative Memory) You store away information mostly based
upon personal experiences that you can consciously retrieve, think about, re-visit,
describe to others. It's a consciously accessible, retrievable memories. Personal
autographic information.
, Semantic ✅(Type of Declarative Memory) Information, knowledge you've gained from
a personal experience but may not have personally experienced. (e.g. you may know
that Paris is in France, not from experience but because you've learned it in class)
Non-Declarative ✅Memories underlying other learned behaviors (e.g. acquisition of
skilled motor actions., stimulus-response habits, and some forms of Pavlovian
conditioning). Memory gained through repetition based learning processes; motor skills,
things you've been conditioned. Other forms of learning like priming. Forms of memories
that are not necessarily consciously retrievable or relatable. (e.g. bike riding)
Non-Declarative Memory is also known as... ✅IMPLICIT MEMORY!
Types of Non-Declarative Memories ✅Priming, Conditioning, Skill Learning
For Declarative Information, learning and memory requires... ✅encoding,
consolidation, retrieval
Encoding ✅ability of the brain to take sensory info and turn it into neural code that can
be stored. Memory is being encoded into neural code that's storable.
Consolidation ✅Once the code has been formed (encoded), it will be consolidated. A
subset of all your personal experiences, once they are encoded, won't just go away &
they will be stored in your brain for a longer period of time. Most of the things that you
experience, you don't actually consolidate. Most of the personal experiences you
discard as soon as the moment is over. Only a subset of them are consolidated. The
neural code that's related to the memory gets stored away in a form in the brain that will
allow it later to be used again.
Retrieval ✅Process by which you later in time come to use the information you've
stored away. You actually pull info out of your memory, possibly call your memory back
up to think about it, revisit it, experience it again & actually at the point of retrieval, this
loop continues again. It allows you to re-encode information, think about it, and want to
be consolidated again and store it in your brain later in time you may retrieve again.
Different brain circuits are responsible for... ✅different aspects of the declarative
memory.
Sensory systems ✅It gives your brain information about what's going on in the world.
Your sensory system has the job of determining what features, what objects, and what
stimuli are present in your environment so that you can make reasonable judgments
about how to behave in a particular context.
Ventral stream ✅responsible for identifying the visual object features of our sensory
world.
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