Exam 4

Question 1

Memory

Answer 1

• The ability to recall previous experience

- The mental capacity to encode, store and retrieve information

Question 2

Types of Memory

Answer 2

• Short-term memory
• Long term memory
• Working memory
• Procedural memory

Question 3

Short-term memory

Answer 3

• One time exposure
• Limited capacity
• Limited duration
  - 20 Seconds without rehearsal

Question 4

Long Term memory

Answer 4

• Requires practice
• infinite capacity
• lasts a life-time

Question 5

Types of long-term memory

Answer 5

• Declarative

- Non Declarative

Question 6

Declarative long term memory

Answer 6

• Things you know that you can tell others

Question 7

Types of declarative long term memory

Answer 7

• Episodic
• Semantic
• Damage

Question 8

Episodic declarative long term memory

Answer 8

• Remembering your first day in school

Question 9

Semantic declarative long term memory

Answer 9

• Knowing information known

Question 10

Damage to the long term memory

Answer 10

• Inability to form new episodic and semantic memories

Question 11

Non Declarative Long term memory

Answer 11

• Things you know that ou can show by doing

Question 12

Types of non declarative long term memory

Answer 12

• skill learning
• priming
• Conditioning

Question 13

What is skill learning

Answer 13

• Knowing how to do something

Question 14

What is priming

Answer 14

• being more likely to use a word you hear recently

Question 15

What is conditioning

Answer 15

• reactions to stimuli

Question 16

What is working memory

Answer 16

• brain anatomy
• Associated with pre-frontal cortex
  Or

Question 17

Damage to working memory

Answer 17

• difficulty holding information in mind

Question 18

Procedural Memory

Answer 18

• procedural/implicit memories seem to depend on basal ganglia, motor cortex and cerebellum

Question 19

Parts evolved in memory

Answer 19

• Neuroscience Gold
• Hipposcampus
• Perirhinal Cortex
• Parahippocampal Cortex
• Entorhinal Cortex

Question 20

Neuroscience Gold effect on memory

Answer 20

• Bilateral Medial removed

- Results in anterograde amnesia and retrograde amnesia

Question 21

Delcearative effect of neuroscience gold

Answer 21

• Consolidation impaired in HM

Question 22

Non-Decleartive effect of neuroscience gold

Answer 22

• Consolidation not impaired in HM

Question 23

Hippocampus effect on memory

Answer 23

• important for spatial memory

- consolidation of declarative memories

Question 24

Perihinal Cortex effect on memory

Answer 24

• Important for visual object memory

Question 25

Parahippocampal Cortex effect on memory

Answer 25

• Important in viso spatial memory

Question 26

Entorhinal Cortex effect on memory

Answer 26

• Important in familiarity

Question 27

Diseases of memory

Answer 27

• Korsakoff’s syndrome

- Alzheimer’s disease

Question 28

What is Korsakoff’s Syndrome

Answer 28

• Severe form of amnesia that is most common for chronic alcohol use

Question 29

Alzheimer’s disease

Answer 29

Progressive, degenerative and incurable brain disease

Question 30

Characteristic of alzheimer’s disease

Answer 30

• memory loss
• confusion
• Restlessness
• Agitation
• hallucinations
• Impairments in reasoning and planning
• Loss of language

Question 31

What are the genetic basis of Alzheimer’s disease

Answer 31

• Amyolid B Plaque build up which interferes with neuron and glial cell function
• Tau
• atrophy

Question 32

Cholinergic Degeneration

Answer 32

• part of alzheimer’s disease

- Ach loss is correlated with AD

Question 33

Hebb’s Pstulate

Answer 33

• WHen an axon of a cell A is near enough to excite cell B or repeatedly takes part in firing it, some growth process change takes place in one or both cells such a’s efficiency as one of the cells firing B is increased

Question 34

Long-term Potentiation

Answer 34

• Strengthening of communication between pre- and post- synaptic neurons after repeated stimulation