Memory Lecture

Question 1

The three components of memory are _

Answer 1

Encoding
Storage
Retreival

Question 2

Explicit memory (vs. implicit) is _. It is also known as _

Answer 2

Concious retreival of information

Declarative memory

Question 3

Semantic memory (vs. episodic) is_

Answer 3

Memory of general declarative information (e.g. facts)

Question 4

Episodic memory (vs. semantic) is _

Answer 4

Memory of event with persona connection

Question 5

Short term memory refers to _

Answer 5

Memory that is held in consciousness for less than 40 seconds

Question 6

Long term memory refers to _

Answer 6

Memory that is retreived after it has left conciousness (more than 1 minute)

Question 7

Anterograde amnesia is _

Answer 7

Forgetting things “after” event

Question 8

Retrograde amnesia is _

Answer 8

Forgetting things “before” event

Question 9

Implicit memory _

Answer 9

Facilitation of current behaviors based on past experience

Question 10

Proceedural memory

Answer 10

Motor learning involving incremental acquisiting of skills, resistant to forgetting

Question 11

Priming memory is

Answer 11

Short lived enhancement based on recent exposure

Question 12

Attention is dissociated from memory. Its definition is _

Answer 12

Orientation to and action upon selected sensory percepts

Question 13

On a molecular level, memory involves (2)

Answer 13

Alterations in synaptic firing

Alterations in cellular morphology

Question 14

The 2 major structures involved with anterograde long term memory are _

Answer 14

Thalamus

Hippocampus

Question 15

Following medial temporal lobe lesion, what types of memory are affected?

Answer 15

Long term episodic memory

- complete loss of anterograde, graded of retrograde memory

Question 16

Medial temporal lobe lesions are seen with what disease?

Answer 16

HSE - Herpes simplex encephalitis

Question 17

Damage to the left anterior thalamus leads to _

Answer 17

Moderate anterograde verbal amnesia

Question 18

Damage to the basal forebrain results in _

Answer 18

Deficits in time-tagging of information. Patients tend to fill in the blanks
Executive function deficit

Question 19

Lesions to hippocampus result in retrograde amnesia. What is the effect of time?

Answer 19

More severe amnesia with memories closer to event. Earlier memories preserved

Question 20

Semantic dementia is associate with what type of damage?

Answer 20

Widespread bilateral damage to the posterior cortical regions

Question 21

Working memory is affect/not affected in temporal lobe amnesia

Answer 21

Not affected

Question 22

Implicit memory (learned by repeated exposure) is accessible to the consciousness. True or false

Answer 22

False

Question 23

Proceedural memory, a type of implicit memory is preserved in alzheimers disease. true or false

Answer 23

True

Question 24

Frontal dysexecutive amnesia is an amnesia syndrome. It is characterized as _. The lesion would be found where?

Answer 24

Patient forgets to remember

Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

Question 25

Acute amnesic syndrome is can be caused by _ (4)

Answer 25

Stroke
Traumatic brain injury
Anoxia
HSE

Question 26

Signs of amnesia due to anoxia can be seen via imaging , true or false

Answer 26

True

Question 27

Transient global amnesia is _. It is caused by _

Answer 27

Sudden onset anterograde and retrograde amnesia

Caused by emotional events, stress, physical activity

Question 28

In alzheimers patients, neural fibrilary tangles accumulate in what structure?

Answer 28

Hippocampus

Question 29

HSE lesions in the right medial temporal lobe lead to _

HSE lesions in the left medial temporal lobe lead to _

Answer 29

Visual impairments

Verbal learning impairments