PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Long-Term Potentiation, Flashbulb Memory, Memory Consolidation

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Our long term memories are not stored in a specific location- they are distributed throughout the brain , some information may go to memories of the experience. Explicit memories are stored within the frontal lobes memories such as recalling a password would be a working memory stored in the left lobe and memories of a party would be in the right lobe. The hippocampus actively works while explicit memories (names images events) are being formed it acts as the brains save button if this portion of the brain gets damaged it becomes difficult to retrieve information. Right hippocampus damage problem recalling visual information. Information is not permenantly stored in the hippocampus- it acts as a loading dock until the memories move to another area. Memory consolidation the neural storage of a long term memory. Sleep supports memory consolidation the hippocampus processes memories for later retrieval. Implicit memory holds learned skills or classically conditioned associations.