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 (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

What type of memory is responsible for storing emotional memories?

<p>Amygdala (A)</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 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the main function of long-term memory?

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

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

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

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

<p>Encoding (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Episodic Memory (B)</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 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did the Lieutenant state about the fire?

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

Why was the fire in the living room hot?

<p>The fire was muffled by the floor (C)</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 (A)</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 (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are false memories?

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

What is the Mandela Effect?

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

What is photographic memory?

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

Where are long-term memories heavily stored?

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

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