Exam 24: Storage- Retaining Information in the Brain

Passing an electric current through the brain during electroconvulsive therapy is most likely to disrupt ________ memory.

Removing a rat's hippocampus 48 hours after it learns the location of some tasty food does not prevent it from forming a long-term memory of where the food is located. This best illustrates the importance of

A good night's sleep improves recall of the previous day's events by facilitating the transfer of memories from the

By activating the amygdala, stress hormones facilitate

After long-term potentiation has occurred

Damage to the ________ is most likely to interfere with explicit memories of newly learned verbal information. Damage to the ________ is most likely to interfere with explicit memories of newly learned visual designs.

Cerebellum is to ________ memory as hippocampus is to ________ memory.

Which type of memory has an essentially limitless capacity?

Having read a story once, certain amnesia victims will read it faster the second time even though they can't recall having seen the story before. They have most likely suffered damage to the

A flashbulb memory would typically be stored in ________ memory.

Remembering how to solve a puzzle without any conscious recollection that you can do so best illustrates ________ memory.

Cortex areas surrounding the hippocampus and supporting the processing and storing of explicit memories are located in the

Stress hormones provoke the ________ to initiate a memory trace in the frontal lobes and basal ganglia.