20 Questions
Which brain region is responsible for holding memories from your immediate past and dispatching them to the cortex?
Hippocampus
Which type of memory is associated with planning and attention?
Working Memory
What is the deciding factor of whether sensory memory is transferred to short-term memory?
Attention
Which type of memory is associated with our stored knowledge and immediate sensory experience?
Working Memory
What type of memory is associated with our senses (smell, taste, touch, vision, hearing)?
Sensory Memory
What type of memory is responsible for storing emotional memories?
Amygdala
Which type of memory is automatic and consists of unconscious skills that we have learned?
Procedural Memory
What is the main function of long-term memory?
To store meaningful experiences and knowledge
Which type of memory is conscious and involves recalling specific knowledge?
Semantic Memory
What is the process of turning sensory memory into working memory called?
Encoding
What type of memory is our memory of specific events that we have experienced?
Episodic Memory
Why did the Lieutenant Firefighter order his team to leave the room?
The fire didn't behave as expected
What did the Lieutenant state about the fire?
The fire was hot
Why was the fire in the living room hot?
The fire was muffled by the floor
What is Thin-Slicing?
The ability of our unconscious to find patterns in situations and behavior based on narrow slices of experience
What is anterograde amnesia?
Loss of memory for events and experiences that occurred after the amnesia-causing event
What are false memories?
Cases in which people remember events differently from the way they happened
What is the Mandela Effect?
The belief that an event occurred when it did not
What is photographic memory?
The ability to recall an image from memory with high precision
Where are long-term memories heavily stored?
Sensory brain areas
Test your knowledge of memory and the brain regions involved in memory with this quiz. Explore different types of memory such as sensory, working, long-term, explicit, semantic, episodic, and implicit memory. Discover how the frontal lobes play a role in working memory and executive functions.
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