learning&mem18

Question 1

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

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

Answer 1

c. Bekhterev

Question 2

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.

Answer 2

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

Question 3

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

Answer 3

a. implicit memory formation

Question 4

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

Answer 4

a. procedural

Question 5

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

Answer 5

a. hemispheric specialization

Question 6

Which is NOT a part of explicit memory functioning?

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

Answer 6

b. bottom-up processing

Question 7

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

Answer 7

d. priming

Question 8

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

Answer 8

b. the Gollin test

Question 9

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.

Answer 9

c. oneself as a continuous entity through time.

Question 10

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

Answer 10

N/A

Question 11

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

Answer 11

c. hippocampus

Question 12

The __________ connects the hippocampus with the posterior neocortex.

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

Answer 12

a. perforant pathway

Question 13

__________ is least affected by right temporal lobe damage.

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

Answer 13

Recall of consonant trigrams

Question 14

“HERA” stands for __________.

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

Answer 14

c. hemispheric encoding and retrieval asymmetry

Question 15

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

Answer 15

b. medial thalamus