Memory Assessments

Question 1

What are informal memory assessments?

Answer 1

1. Attention, working memory:
   * e.g., digit span (brief time scale)
   * Dialing a phone number someone was just told
   * Copying a figure someone has just seen
2. Immediate/delayed memory
   * Provide information and ask for it to be recalled
   * Recall again after 5’-30’
3. Remote memory
   * Ask about verifiable personal information or about wellknown events or figures in the past

Question 2

List

Neuropsychological Assessments of Memory

Answer 2

1. California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT)
2. Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS)
3. Wide Range Assessment of Memory & Learning (WRAML)

Answer 3

Prefrontal cortex is the part of the brain that handles the working memory

Answer 4

Episodic memory occurs in the hippocampus in the temporal lobe

Answer 5

Procedural memory involves the