Exam 9: Memory,attention,emotion,and Executive Functioning

Patients with amygdala damage are likely,if rating or evaluating events,to show a:

____________________ forms the basis of our experience and our perception of ourselves.

The three primary brain structures involved in consolidating information into long-term memory are the medial temporal lobes,diencephalons,and ____________________.

Which of the following has been implicated in the processing of emotions?

The Tower of London-Drexel provides a measure of:

____________________ refers to the spatial engagement of attention to a target without moving the eyes or the head.

Which of the following tasks is influenced by the frontal lobes?

Which of the following statements is true regarding working memory?

The episodic buffer is posed to be temporary storage system that holds and integrates information from different sensory modalities.

The ____________________ theory of emotional processing postulates that emotions are consciously experienced as a reaction to physical sensory experience.

Divided attention refers to the ability to:

____________________ memory is fleeting but its capacity is unlimited as to what is can take in.

____ memory is to direct recall or recognition as ____ memory is to priming and skill demonstration.

The ____________________ theory of emotions argues that conscious emotional experience can be divorced from bodily sensation or expression.

The loop known as the ____________________ is known to have more to do with consolidating memory than primary emotional processing.

Posner has found that the ____________________ lobe mediates conscious attention to spatial targets.

The ____________________ cortex is implicated in emotional decision making.

____________________ memory is learned and demonstrated via performance.

The function of declarative memory is to process information in such a way as to tag it or consolidate it for storage in the brain.

Short-term memory is said to have a capacity of 92.