Test Yourself by taking a moment to answer each of these Learning Objective Questions (repeated here from within the module). Research suggests that trying to answer these questions on your own will improve your long-
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Test yourself on these terms.
semantic memory (p. 292) episodic memory (p. 292) hippocampus (p. 293) memory consolidation (p. 293) flashbulb memory (p. 295) long- priming (p. 297) mood- serial position effect (p. 299) | a clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event. a neural center located in the limbic system; helps process explicit memories for storage. an increase in a cell's firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation. Believed to be a neural basis for learning and memory. explicit memory of personally experienced events; one of our two conscious memory systems (the other is semantic memory). the tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood. the activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory. our tendency to recall best the last (recency effect) and first (primacy effect) items in a list. the neural storage of a long- explicit memory of facts and general knowledge; one of our two conscious memory systems (the other is episodic memory). |
Test yourself repeatedly throughout your studies. This will not only help you figure out what you know and don’t know; the testing itself will help you learn and remember the information more effectively thanks to the testing effect.
1. The hippocampus seems to function as a
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2. Hippocampus damage typically leaves people unable to learn new facts or recall recent events. However, they may be able to learn new skills, such as riding a bicycle, which is an (explicit/implicit) memory.
3. Long-term potentiation (LTP) refers to
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4. Specific odors, visual images, emotions, or other associations that help us access a memory are examples of .
5. When you feel sad, why might it help to look at pictures that reawaken some of your best memories?
6. When tested immediately after viewing a list of words, people tend to recall the first and last items more readily than those in the middle. When retested after a delay, they are most likely to recall
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