Module 32

Module 32

1. Which part of your brain is responsible for processing explicit memories?

   • Hippocampus
     • Process explicit memories for storage. "Save button" for explicit memories. Where brain registers and temporarily hold the elements of a remembered episode before moving them to other brain regions for long-term storage
   • Frontal lobes

2. Which part of your brain is responsible for processing implicit memories? (automatic processing)

   • Cerebellum
     • Forming and storing implicit memories created by classical conditioning
   • Basal Ganglia
     • involved in motor movement

3. Flashbulb memory

   • Clear memory of an emotionally significant event

4. Long term potentiation (TLP)

   • Increase in cell's firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation

5. Priming

   • Activation of particular associations in memory

6. Context-dependent state/ State-dependent memory

7. Serial position effect

   • recency effect (last items) and primacy effect (first items)