R13 Questions Flashcards
What are the defining characteristics of HSAM?
HSAM subjects can recall highly organized, accessible, and accurate memories due to the ability to retain what is learned for a long period of time.
The people tested by McGaugh who were found to have HSAM took a battery of lab memory tests and scored better than controls in only two of these tests. On which two memory tests did they score better than controls?
Associating names with faces and checking recall of visual objects
McGaugh and colleagues noted that people with HSAM score significantly higher on a test of ___________ personality traits.
obsessive
What brain structure difference has been noted in people with HSAM?
The uncinate fascicle
This structure transits information between the _______ and ________ cortex.
temporal & frontal
The extraordinary abilities of HSAM people contrast with those of Luria’s subject S in that S’s memory was characterized by his ability to …
Learn and retain large amounts of highly detailed, meaningless material
One of the main lessons learned by Milner’s studies of H.M. was that different brain systems are responsible for …
distinctive types of memory
