learning&mem18 Flashcards

1
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The first evidence that the temporal lobes had a role in memory was provided by __________.

a. Ebbinghaus
b. Lashley
c. Bekhterev
d. Scoville

A

c. Bekhterev

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Which question would be most difficult for H.M. to answer correctly?

a. What was your mother’s maiden name?
b. How many days are there in three weeks?
c. Did you have any visitors the day before yesterday?
d. H.M. would find all of these questions difficult.

A

c. Did you have any visitors the day before yesterday?

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H.M.’s performance on the mirror-drawing task demonstrates his ability to display __________.

a. implicit memory formation
b. anterograde amnesia
c. logical reasoning
d. priming

A

a. implicit memory formation

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Nadel and Moscovitch’s multiple-trace theory contends that there are three types of memory. Which type of memory is NOT included in their theory?

a. procedural
b. general semantic
c. autobiographical
d. factual semantic

A

a. procedural

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5
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According to the theories presented (consolidation theory, multiple-trace theory, reconsolidation theory), which is NOT a variable in retrograde amnesia?

a. hemispheric specialization
b. the number of times a memory is used
c. memory storage
d. the type of memory

A

a. hemispheric specialization

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Which is NOT a part of explicit memory functioning?

a. semantic memory
b. bottom-up processing
c. intentional remembering
d. episodic memory

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b. bottom-up processing

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The patient known as H.M. shows memory performance equal to that of normal control subjects in memory studies that include which manipulation?

a. visual search
b. spatial learning
c. mood congruence
d. priming

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d. priming

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Which is a good way to test for implicit priming of memory?

a. the mirror-drawing task
b. the Gollin test
c. analogies
d. all of the above

A

b. the Gollin test

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According to Tulving, autonoetic awareness-which is compromised with some types of frontal lobe damage-is best described as consciousness of

a. one’s own spatial location.
b. the functioning of one’s sympathetic nervous system.
c. oneself as a continuous entity through time.
d. each of the distinct sensory experiences that are part of somatosensation.

A

c. oneself as a continuous entity through time.

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10
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Both Ammon’s horn and the dentate gyrus are components of which brain structurethat is crucial to learning and memory?

a. the amygdala
b. the hypothalamus
c. the cerebellum
d. the hippocampus

A

N/A

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According to Petri and Mishkin, the __________ is NOT part of the proposed implicit memory system.

a. ventral thalamus
b. premotor cortex
c. hippocampus
d. basal ganglia

A

c. hippocampus

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The __________ connects the hippocampus with the posterior neocortex.

a. perforant pathway
b. fimbria-fornix
c. hippocampal commissure
d. stria terminalis

A

a. perforant pathway

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13
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__________ is least affected by right temporal lobe damage.

a. Face recognition
b. Spatial position
c. Recall of consonant trigrams
d. Maze learning

A

Recall of consonant trigrams

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“HERA” stands for __________.

a. high emotional retrograde amnesia
b. hippocampal-entorhinal retrograde amnesia
c. hemispheric encoding and retrieval asymmetry
d. hologram encoding retrieval assessment

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c. hemispheric encoding and retrieval asymmetry

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Evidence from Korsakoff’s patients suggests that the __________ is/are involved in global amnesia.

a. frontal lobes
b. medial thalamus
c. basal cholinergic system
d. perirhinal cortex

A

b. medial thalamus

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