Mod 32 Reading Guide

Our capacity for storing long-term memories is essentially _______________

...brain networks encode, store, and retrieve the information that forms our ____________ memories

The __________ plays a key role in forming and storing the implicit memories created by classical conditioning

Match the following

• semantic memory

• explicit memory of facts and general knowledge

• amygdala

• the neural storage of long term-memory

• memory consolidation

• neural center located in the limbic system; helps process explicit memories-of facts and events- for storage

• episodic memory

• explicit memory of personally experienced events

• hippocampus

• located in the limbic system; it helps control our emotional responses - primarily the fight or flight response

Our ___________ memories are noteworthy for their vividness and our confidence in them.

Experience and learning can increase--even double-- the number of synapses, even in _____.

This increased efficiency of potential neural _________, called long-term potentiation, provides a neural basis for learning and remembering associations.

The encoding specificity principle helps us understand how cues ________ to an event or person will most effectively trigger that memory.

Our memories are context-dependent, and are affected by the cues we have ____________ with that context.

When happy, we recall _________ events....