learning and memory

Question 1

retrograde amnesia

Answer 1

difficulty in retrieving the memories from before the onset of amnesia

Question 2

patient H.M.

Answer 2

bc of damage to medial temporal lobe structures, unable to encode new memories
surgery removed amygdala and most of hippocampus and surrounding cortex

Question 3

anterograde amnesia

Answer 3

inability to form new memories after onset of a disorder

Question 4

hippocampus function

Answer 4

learning, memory, special navigation

Question 5

declarative memory

Answer 5

facts and information acquired through learning, memory that can be stated or described, that we declare to others

Question 6

nondeclarative memory

Answer 6

aka procedural memory
shown by performance rather than conscious recollection

Question 7

delayed non-matching-to-sample task

Answer 7

a test in which the participant must select the stimulus that was not seen previously

Question 8

2 components of declarative memory

Answer 8

familiarity and recollection

Question 9

familiarity and recollection places in the brain

Answer 9

perirhinal cortex and hippocampus