Question: If the hippocampus doesn't store information what does it do?
Answer: may be involved in changing neural connections for a period of three months or more after the initial learning.

Question: How long does sensory  memory to to store information?
Answer: less than one second

Question: Can we control what is stored in our sensory memory?
Answer: It is out of cognitive control

Question: Who did the first studies on exploring a new idea of sensory memory?
Answer: George Sperling

Question: What did Spellings' findings reveal?
Answer: this form of memory degrades so quickly, participants would see the display but be unable to report all of the items

Question: How does short term memory encode information?
Answer: acoustically

Question: What did Baddeleys test subjects have touble doing?
Answer: recalling a collection of words that had similar meanings

Question: How does long term memory encode information?
Answer: semantically

Question: What is episodic memory?
Answer: "which attempts to capture information such as 'what', 'when' and 'where'

Question: If someone where to recall a wedding they had went to a year before, which type of memory would be used?
Answer: episodic memory,

Question: Why do infants and young childrens memories need to be assesed differently?
Answer: do not have the language ability to report on their memories

Question: Can researchers study an infants or young childs memories?
Answer: , researchers have adapted and developed a number of measures for assessing both infants’ recognition memory and their recall memory.

Question: How can a researcher study a childs memory?
Answer: elicited imitation techniques

Question: What are some catgories of retrospective memory?
Answer: semantic, episodic and autobiographical memory

Question: If a memory is triggered by a time, which kind of memory is this?
Answer: Time-based prospective memories

Question: What is something somebody can use to remember something?
Answer: Cues

Question: If Bob realized he needed to mail his mother a letter after seeing the postal office, which kind of memory did he trigger?
Answer: Event-based prospective memories

Question: Was Hebb's thought of the relationship between short and long term memory true?
Answer: research showed this to be false

Question: Which drugs seemed to help someone remember earlier events?
Answer: cortisol or epinephrine

Question: What relationship does excitement and memory share?
Answer: excitement enhances memory

Question: Bob was in a car accident and couldn't remember his wifes name, what part of his brain could have been damaged?
Answer: hippocampus

Question: Is it important to know how information is coded in the brain?
Answer: that is crucial

Question: Have researchers learned anything studying plasticity?
Answer: have gained much knowledge

Question: What are the roles of Covergence-divergence zones?
Answer: might be the neural networks where memories are stored and retrieved.

Question: What has most of the research on memories revolved around?
Answer: simple learning in simple neuronal circuits;

Question: What do cognitive neuroscientists believe memory is?
Answer: the retention, reactivation, and reconstruction of the experience-independent internal representation

Question: What suggests that memory has two different components?
Answer: term of internal representation

Question: What showed that memory exists even before that memory is known to the person?
Answer: Moscovitch 2007

Question: What is an engram trace?
Answer: the underpinning physical neural changes

Question: What is another term for procedural memory?
Answer: implicit memory

Question: If bob remembered how to bake a cake after seeing this on television what memory is he using?
Answer: procedural memory

Question: What set of skills is reliant on procedural memory?
Answer: motor skills

Question: If Bob does throws 15 more free throws than he did last week, how many more explicit memories has he gained?
Answer: no new explicit memories have been formed,

Question: Which model explains why bob has an easier time reading a book, and then discussing it rather than reading two books?
Answer: working memory model

Question: Which concept is criticised for being unworthy and too broad?
Answer: concept of a central executive

Question: Which part of memory allows us to go about our daily lives?
Answer: Working memory

Question: What do most elderly people worry about?
Answer: memory loss,

Question: Is an eldery person with alzheimers having the same problem as a similar aged person experiencing memory loss?
Answer: memory loss is qualitatively different

Question: Which part of the brain is associated with the memory loss an elderly person suffers?
Answer: frontal regions

Question: Which memory is an elderly person helping by using appointment books?
Answer: prospective memory

Question: Does a 6 month old have short term memory?
Answer: can recall information over the short-term

Question: What age can an infabt recall steps in an order?
Answer: 9 months of age

Question: What part of a two step sequence can a 6 month old remember?
Answer: one step of a two-step sequence

Question: What part of the brain is not fully developed in infants which can cause the memory differences in ages?
Answer: the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus and the frontal components of the neural network are not fully developed

Question: When remembering your first day of school or first dance, which memory are you using?
Answer: Episodic memories

Question: Which type of memory enables us to remember knowledge of the world?
Answer: Semantic memory

Question: When fondly remembering your memory, which type of memory are you using?
Answer: Autobiographical memory

Question: Which type of memory is used when remembering something that we've seen?
Answer: Visual memory

Question: What can cause your memory to deterioriate or not work as well?
Answer: Stress

Question: Which hormones are produces when a animal is stressed out?
Answer: adrenal hormones

Question: Who performed a study that involved having peoples hands in cold water while also memorizing words?
Answer: L. Schwabe and O. Wolf

Question: What did L. Schwabes and O. Wolfs study seem to conlcude?
Answer: stress experienced during learning distracts people by diverting their attention during the memory encoding process.

Question: What trouble can interference cause?
Answer: can hamper memorization and retrieval

Question: What is retroactive interference?
Answer: when learning new information makes it harder to recall old information

Question: What is proactive interference?
Answer: where prior learning disrupts recall of new information

Question: What is a term used to describe being able to learn something quicker due to an older ability?
Answer: positive transfer.

Question: In 1960 did people believe an infant was able to remember things?
Answer: Up until the middle of the 1980s it was assumed that infants could not encode, retain, and retrieve information.

Question: What is the minimum age researchers think a child begins to have memory?
Answer: . A growing body of research now indicates that infants as young as 6-months can recall information

Question: Does a persons memory capacity increase with age?
Answer: Furthermore, research has revealed that as infants grow older they can store information for longer periods of time

Question: Who has a better memory retention a 6 month old or a 9 month old?
Answer: 9-month-olds

Question: What role does the amygdala play in memory?
Answer: thought to be involved in emotional memory

Question: Can you pin point certain areas of the brain to certain memories. 
Answer: it is not sufficient to describe memory, and its counterpart, learning, as solely dependent on specific brain regions

Question: What changes can be linked to learning and memory?
Answer: neuronal synapses,