EXP 3422C Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Morris Water Navigation Task, Temporal Lobe, Episodic Memory
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Key words/terms: declarative/explicit memory consciously accessible (you know that you know these things). Can be shared/communicated in a variety of forms: episodic memory a type of explicit memory. Autobiographical memory, has where and when info, you know that you know these things. Repeated exposure to similar episodes decreases the accuracy of memory for individual episodes: semantic memory memory for facts, could have where and when info but not necessary, i know . Let scrub jays bury both in sawdust in ice cube trays, then test food searching preferences. Stm ltm: multiple memory trace hippocampus is always needed stm ltm, reconsolidation old memories are retrieved, potentially contaminated and have to be put back (like sadness touching a memory in inside out). Auditory, tactile, associative visual: frontal cortex helps us decide what to remember. People with lesions are susceptible to source amnesia: basal forebrain modulates the hippocampus.
