Mastering Memory
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Which brain region is responsible for holding memories from your immediate past and dispatching them to the cortex?

  • Hippocampus (correct)
  • Cortex
  • Frontal Lobes
  • Amygdala

    • Which type of memory is associated with planning and attention?

  • Sensory Memory
  • Working Memory (correct)
  • Explicit Memory
  • Long-Term Memory

    • What is the deciding factor of whether sensory memory is transferred to short-term memory?

  • Capacity
  • Attention (correct)
  • Planning
  • Perception

    • Which type of memory is associated with our stored knowledge and immediate sensory experience?

    <p>Working Memory</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of memory is associated with our senses (smell, taste, touch, vision, hearing)?

    <p>Sensory Memory</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of memory is responsible for storing emotional memories?

    <p>Amygdala</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of memory is automatic and consists of unconscious skills that we have learned?

    <p>Procedural Memory</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main function of long-term memory?

    <p>To store meaningful experiences and knowledge</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of memory is conscious and involves recalling specific knowledge?

    <p>Semantic Memory</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the process of turning sensory memory into working memory called?

    <p>Encoding</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of memory is our memory of specific events that we have experienced?

    <p>Episodic Memory</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why did the Lieutenant Firefighter order his team to leave the room?

    <p>The fire didn't behave as expected</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did the Lieutenant state about the fire?

    <p>The fire was hot</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why was the fire in the living room hot?

    <p>The fire was muffled by the floor</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is Thin-Slicing?

    <p>The ability of our unconscious to find patterns in situations and behavior based on narrow slices of experience</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is anterograde amnesia?

    <p>Loss of memory for events and experiences that occurred after the amnesia-causing event</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are false memories?

    <p>Cases in which people remember events differently from the way they happened</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the Mandela Effect?

    <p>The belief that an event occurred when it did not</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is photographic memory?

    <p>The ability to recall an image from memory with high precision</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Where are long-term memories heavily stored?

    <p>Sensory brain areas</p> Signup and view all the answers

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