Memory And Learning Flashcards
Retrograde amnesia is: a. the inability to learn new information following a brain injury. b. the inability to learn new information and recall information prior to a brain injury. c. the inability to recall information prior to a brain injury. d. none of the above.
Answer: The inability to recall information prior to a brain injury
When memorizing a list of words, the words that are last to be presented are more easily recalled. This is called the: a. primacy effect b. recency effect c. equipotential effect d. transduction effect
Answer: recency effect
Baddeley and Hitch’s (1974) Working Memory Model theorizes a modality nonspecific cognitive system that coordinates processes in working memory. What are the two mechanisms that the central executive of working memory regulates? a. short-term and long-term memory b. phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad c. analysis and synthesis d. sensory memory and working memory
Answer: phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad
In children, memory problems occur more frequently as secondary to deficits in attention, verbal processing, and visual perception, rather than as problems that are specific to memory alone. True or False?
Answer: -True
What term is used to describe memory retrieval without the aide of external cues? a. recognition b. free recall c. learning d. incidental learning
Answer: Free recall
Bilateral removal on the temporal lobes in the case study of H. M. produced what types of memory impairment? a. retrograde amnesia b. tranducational amnesia c. anterograde amnesia d. posterior amnesia
Answer: Anterograde amnesia
In Baddeley and Hitch’s Working Memory Model, what is the command and control center that presides over the interactions between the two subordinate systems and long-term memory? a. visuospatial sketchpad b. central executive c. phonological loop d. the dorsal stream
Answer: Central Executive
In the School Neuropsychological Conceptual Model, memory is categorized into what four major divisions? a. short-term memory, long-term memory, semantic memory, and working memory b. sensory memory, short-term memory, working memory, and long-term memory c. rate of new learning, immediate memory, long-term memory, and verbal-visual associative memory d. sensory memory, immediate memory, working memory, and long-term memory
Answer: rate of new learning, immediate memory, long-term memory, and verbal-visual associative memory
What are the names of the three major stand-alone tests of memory and learning for children? a. California Verbal Learning Test: Children’s Version, NEPSY-2, and Children’s Memory Scale b. Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning - Second Edition, Test of Memory and Learning-2, and Children’s Memory Scale c. Test of Everyday Memory, Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning- Second Edition, and the NEPSY-2 d. Children’s Memory Scale, NEPSY-2, and Test of Memory and Learning-2
Answer: Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning - Second Edition, Test of Memory and Learning-2, and Children’s Memory Scale
Memory for Stories tests would be categorized where in the school neuropsychology conceptual model? a. verbal memory with context b. visual memory with context c. verbal memory without context d. visual memory without context
Answer: verbal memory with context
True or false? All memory for stories tests across batteries measure the same neurocognitive abilities?
Answer: -False
On a list learning test, the number correct from the last trial minus the number correct on the first trial is considered a measure of: a. retention b. recall c. recognition d. learning
Answer: learning
In a memory recall test, a recall error such as recalling “car” for “truck” is called? a. a phonological error b. an intrusion error c. a semantic error d. a confabulation error
Answer: a semantic error
Which type of memory is not assessed on the WRAML-2, Children’s Memory Scale, or TOMAL-2? a. visual immediate memory b. verbal long-term memory c. semantic memory d. verbal immediate memory
Answer: semantic memory
Tests such as recalling digits or letters backwards are designed to measure what aspect of memory? a. verbal working memory b. semantic memory c. verbal immediate memory d. verbal long-term memory
Answer: verbal working memory
