Memory 2

any device/technique used to assist memory by creating a link between new info and info previously encoded

organizing items into familiar, manageable, meaningful units

can produce speedy short-term learning

• Massed Practice (Cramming)

• Spacing Effect/Distributed Practice

distributed study or practice produces better long-term retention

• Massed Practice (Cramming)

• Spacing Effect/Distributed Practice

All the memories we hold for periods of time longer than a few seconds

Retrieval and use of explicit memories, which is in part a working memory or executive function, is directed by the _______ _____.

• frontal lobes

• hippocampus

• cerebellum

• basal ganglia

Encoding and storage of explicit memories is facilitated by the ___________.

• frontal lobes

• hippocampus

• cerebellum

• basal ganglia

The __________ (“little brain”) forms and stores our conditioned responses.

• frontal lobes

• hippocampus

• cerebellum

• basal ganglia

The _____ _______, next to the thalamus, controls movement and forms and stores procedural memory and motor skills

• frontal lobes

• hippocampus

• cerebellum

• basal ganglia

Events and facts are held in the hippocampus for a couple of days before moving to other parts of the brain for long-term storage. This movement for long-term storage is called _____________.