Exam 9: Working Memory and Cognitive Control Integrative Topics Module

What evidence suggests that the prefrontal cortex is involved in interactions between working memory and long-term memory?

Suppose one is performing a 2-back test where the target is the number 9. What number would one have to report if presented with the sequence 2 8 5 4 7 9 1 6 3?

Prefrontal neurons that fire during a delay period seem to encode:

The year is 2016 and one is listening to a newscast about September 11, and a friend is trying to remember who told him about the event since he wasn't near a television to see it. What area of the brain would be activated as the friend attempts to remember?

Medications for ADHD work by:

Where does information automatically and rapidly decay?

Automatic processes:

In Baddeley's working-memory model, the two short-term memory buffers are called the:

Permanent or near permanent storage of memory that last beyond a period of conscious attention is known as:

Elliot is a successful and happily married accountant who had always been viewed by others as reliable and responsible. He developed a large tumor that surgeons were able to remove. However, soon after the surgery, he divorced his wife, remarried and divorced again, lost touch with most of his friends and family, got involved in corrupt business deals, and was soon bankrupt. It's logical to say that Elliot's _____ was damaged by the tumor.

People with ADHD may have deficits in the _____ cortex, which is the region associated with _____.

The most abstract plans depend on the _____ areas of the frontal lobes, and the most concrete plans depend on the _____ areas of the frontal lobes.

In the delayed nonmatch-to-sample task, the subjects must select the stimulus that is:

Which task would activate the left-anterior ventrolateral prefrontal cortex?

Which aspect of memory is often conceptualized as the mind's active workplace?

Suppose one's boss catches him in the hallway and asks him to attend a meeting the next day. In order to remember the time and location of the meeting, he repeats it over and over to himself until he gets back to his office and can write it down in his schedule. In his rehearsal, he is using the:

Rebecca takes a dance class in which the first exercise the class does is always the same. But one day, the dance instructor changed the first exercise. Out of habit, Rebecca persisted in doing the exercise she was used to, until she realized everyone else was doing something different. The task her central executive is MOST concerned with in this example is:

How did George Sperling demonstrate that the visual sensory memory holds a large amount of visual information?

An individual suffering from _____ would exhibit deficits in his/her working memory due to insufficient levels of dopamine.

Which statement is TRUE regarding the phonological loop?