Question 1

All single-case treatment methods involve beginning with a measure of:

Accepted Answer

A) IQ 
B) Recall 
C) Mental rotation abilities 
D) Maths abilities 
E) Baseline performance 
A) IQ 
B) Recall 
C) Mental rotation abilities 
D) Maths abilities 
E) Baseline performance E

Question 2

Baddeley et al. (2001)observed largely preserved functioning in which two measures of Jon's abilities that contradicted the simplified modal model of amnesia?

Accepted Answer

A) Procedural memory and episodic memory 
B) Episodic memory and semantic memory 
C) Recall and recognition 
D) Semantic memory and crystallized intelligence 
E) Iconic memory and crystallized intelligence 
A) Procedural memory and episodic memory 
B) Episodic memory and semantic memory 
C) Recall and recognition 
D) Semantic memory and crystallized intelligence 
E) Iconic memory and crystallized intelligence D

Question 3

The Multiple Trace Hypothesis argues for a role of the hippocampus in:

Accepted Answer

A) Both retrieval and encoding 
B) Retrieval only 
C) Encoding only 
D) Neither encoding nor retrieval 
E) Only in olfaction 
A) Both retrieval and encoding 
B) Retrieval only 
C) Encoding only 
D) Neither encoding nor retrieval 
E) Only in olfaction A

Question 4

The type of amnesia referring to a problem in encoding, storing, or retrieving ongoing information that can be used in the future is most precisely termed:

Accepted Answer

A) Anterograde 
B) Retrograde 
C) Ensuing 
D) Regressive 
E) Antagonistic 
A) Anterograde 
B) Retrograde 
C) Ensuing 
D) Regressive 
E) Antagonistic

Question 5

The most prominent cause of senile dementia currently is:

Accepted Answer

A) Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease 
B) Lewy body 
C) Parkinson's disease 
D) Alzheimer's disease 
E) Huntington's disease 
A) Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease 
B) Lewy body 
C) Parkinson's disease 
D) Alzheimer's disease 
E) Huntington's disease

Question 6

Which of the following is specifically designed to help patients with Alzheimer's disease maintain a sense of personal identity by recollecting their past in the form of a life story book, for example?

Accepted Answer

A) Rivastigmine 
B) Reality orientation training 
C) Reminiscence therapy 
D) Exposure therapy 
E) Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) 
A) Rivastigmine 
B) Reality orientation training 
C) Reminiscence therapy 
D) Exposure therapy 
E) Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)

Question 7

Having recovered from PTA, the patient is likely to present:

Accepted Answer

A) Retrograde amnesia that grows with time 
B) Retrograde amnesia that shrinks over time 
C) No retrograde amnesia 
D) Retrograde amnesia that usually remains fixed over time 
E) Hypermnesia 
A) Retrograde amnesia that grows with time 
B) Retrograde amnesia that shrinks over time 
C) No retrograde amnesia 
D) Retrograde amnesia that usually remains fixed over time 
E) Hypermnesia

Question 8

Assessment is particularly important for all of the following reasons described in the text, EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

A) To accurately disseminate research findings 
B) To understand the nature and extent of the deficit, compared to healthy individuals 
C) To facilitate communication of patient information to other professionals 
D) To help plan possible treatment programs 
E) To occupy the patient's time 
A) To accurately disseminate research findings 
B) To understand the nature and extent of the deficit, compared to healthy individuals 
C) To facilitate communication of patient information to other professionals 
D) To help plan possible treatment programs 
E) To occupy the patient's time

Question 9

Which of the following is NOT typically true of Alzheimer's Disease?

Accepted Answer

A) The recency effect in free recall tends to be preserved in the earlier stages 
B) Episodic memory deficits are particularly marked 
C) Cognitive decline may occur with well-preserved social and emotional skills 
D) Their impaired episodic memory tends to lead to faster forgetting 
E) Ability to perform two tasks at the same time is particularly impaired 
A) The recency effect in free recall tends to be preserved in the earlier stages 
B) Episodic memory deficits are particularly marked 
C) Cognitive decline may occur with well-preserved social and emotional skills 
D) Their impaired episodic memory tends to lead to faster forgetting 
E) Ability to perform two tasks at the same time is particularly impaired

Question 10

Which type of confabulation tends to be the more florid, less common variety and is often linked to frontal lobe damage?

Accepted Answer

A) Prompted 
B) Provoked 
C) Spontaneous 
D) Situational 
E) Psychosomatic 
A) Prompted 
B) Provoked 
C) Spontaneous 
D) Situational 
E) Psychosomatic

Question 11

Stickgold et al. (2000)and Gaskell and Dumay (2003)provided some of the evidence suggesting that long-term retention is improved when learning is followed by which of these?

Accepted Answer

A) Video game play 
B) Proactive interference 
C) Retroactive interference 
D) Sleep 
E) Magnetoencephalography 
A) Video game play 
B) Proactive interference 
C) Retroactive interference 
D) Sleep 
E) Magnetoencephalography

Question 12

A movement within memory to extend the study of memory from the confines of the laboratory to the world outside is called:

Accepted Answer

A) Normal memory 
B) Current memory 
C) Everyday memory 
D) World memory 
E) Mainstream memory 
A) Normal memory 
B) Current memory 
C) Everyday memory 
D) World memory 
E) Mainstream memory

Question 13

Della Sala's research group in Edinburgh observed that information retention by amnesic patients was greatly improved if the learning was immediately followed by which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A) Heightened sensory stimulation 
B) Removal of the patient to a quiet, dim room 
C) Standard cognitive tasks related to assessment 
D) Deep-brain stimulation 
E) Crossword puzzle solving 
A) Heightened sensory stimulation 
B) Removal of the patient to a quiet, dim room 
C) Standard cognitive tasks related to assessment 
D) Deep-brain stimulation 
E) Crossword puzzle solving

Question 14

Warrington and Weiskrantz (1970)hypothesised that which of the following leads to a retrieval deficit they believed was at the root of amnesia, a hypothesis that has come to face certain challenges?

Accepted Answer

A) An inability to process information deeply 
B) Increased rate of decay 
C) Greater susceptibility to interference 
D) Impaired associative binding 
E) Limited working memory buffer 
A) An inability to process information deeply 
B) Increased rate of decay 
C) Greater susceptibility to interference 
D) Impaired associative binding 
E) Limited working memory buffer

Question 15

Factual knowledge about one's own past is called:

Accepted Answer

A) Personal semantic memory 
B) Personal episodic memory 
C) Episodic memory 
D) Semantic memory 
E) Incidental memory 
A) Personal semantic memory 
B) Personal episodic memory 
C) Episodic memory 
D) Semantic memory 
E) Incidental memory

Question 16

Two cardinal signs of AD are:

Accepted Answer

A) Increased medial temporal and parietal lobe volume 
B) Increase in white blood cell count and hypertension 
C) Large tumors and reduced ventricles 
D) Amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles 
E) Sleep apnea and profound headaches 
A) Increased medial temporal and parietal lobe volume 
B) Increase in white blood cell count and hypertension 
C) Large tumors and reduced ventricles 
D) Amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles 
E) Sleep apnea and profound headaches

Question 17

Which of the following deficits did Meltzer NOT experience?

Accepted Answer

A) Failing to recognise his family 
B) He didn't remember the period during his coma 
C) He had difficulty remembering events from just before his attack 
D) He could not remember where he put things after returning from the hospital 
E) He had problems remembering how to set an alarm clock 
A) Failing to recognise his family 
B) He didn't remember the period during his coma 
C) He had difficulty remembering events from just before his attack 
D) He could not remember where he put things after returning from the hospital 
E) He had problems remembering how to set an alarm clock

Question 18

While amnesic patients may not have difficulty imagining components of future activities, they tend to have difficulty integrating them into a whole, a problem Hassabis et al. (2007)attribute to:

Accepted Answer

A) Limited visual short-term memory span 
B) Lack of hope for the future sometimes experienced by depressed amnesic patients 
C) Faulty echoic memory 
D) The role of the hippocampus in spatial processing as well as memory 
E) Damage to the angular gyrus 
A) Limited visual short-term memory span 
B) Lack of hope for the future sometimes experienced by depressed amnesic patients 
C) Faulty echoic memory 
D) The role of the hippocampus in spatial processing as well as memory 
E) Damage to the angular gyrus

Question 19

Which of the following characterizes observations about the patient Jon?

Accepted Answer

A) All of these 
B) Jon used "remember" and "know" categories about as frequently as controls 
C) Jon appeared to be using a strength signal for "remember" judgments 
D) Jon appeared to lack an electrophysiological marker of "remembering" 
E) Jon was largely unable to provide recollective details related to "remember" judgments 
A) All of these 
B) Jon used "remember" and "know" categories about as frequently as controls 
C) Jon appeared to be using a strength signal for "remember" judgments 
D) Jon appeared to lack an electrophysiological marker of "remembering" 
E) Jon was largely unable to provide recollective details related to "remember" judgments

Question 20

The patient Jon has come to display all of the following characteristics, EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

A) Difficulty coping independently 
B) Recognition memory within the normal range 
C) Average intelligence 
D) Good semantic memory skills 
E) Normal recall memory 
A) Difficulty coping independently 
B) Recognition memory within the normal range 
C) Average intelligence 
D) Good semantic memory skills 
E) Normal recall memory

All single-case treatment methods involve beginning with a measure of:

Baddeley et al. (2001)observed largely preserved functioning in which two measures of Jon's abilities that contradicted the simplified modal model of amnesia?

The Multiple Trace Hypothesis argues for a role of the hippocampus in:

The type of amnesia referring to a problem in encoding, storing, or retrieving ongoing information that can be used in the future is most precisely termed:

The most prominent cause of senile dementia currently is:

Which of the following is specifically designed to help patients with Alzheimer's disease maintain a sense of personal identity by recollecting their past in the form of a life story book, for example?

Having recovered from PTA, the patient is likely to present:

Assessment is particularly important for all of the following reasons described in the text, EXCEPT:

Which of the following is NOT typically true of Alzheimer's Disease?

Which type of confabulation tends to be the more florid, less common variety and is often linked to frontal lobe damage?

Stickgold et al. (2000)and Gaskell and Dumay (2003)provided some of the evidence suggesting that long-term retention is improved when learning is followed by which of these?

A movement within memory to extend the study of memory from the confines of the laboratory to the world outside is called:

Della Sala's research group in Edinburgh observed that information retention by amnesic patients was greatly improved if the learning was immediately followed by which of the following?

Warrington and Weiskrantz (1970)hypothesised that which of the following leads to a retrieval deficit they believed was at the root of amnesia, a hypothesis that has come to face certain challenges?

Factual knowledge about one's own past is called:

Two cardinal signs of AD are:

Which of the following deficits did Meltzer NOT experience?

While amnesic patients may not have difficulty imagining components of future activities, they tend to have difficulty integrating them into a whole, a problem Hassabis et al. (2007)attribute to:

Which of the following characterizes observations about the patient Jon?

The patient Jon has come to display all of the following characteristics, EXCEPT:

What Is Memory

Memory and the Brain

Short-Term Memory

Working Memory

Learning

Episodic Memory: Organizing and Remembering

Semantic Memory and Stored Knowledge

Retrieval

Incidental Forgetting

Motivated Forgetting

Autobiographical Memory

Eyewitness Testimony

Prospective Memory

Memory Across the Lifespan: Growing up

Memory and Aging

Improving Your Memory

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Exam 16: When Memory Systems Fail

All single-case treatment methods involve beginning with a measure of:

Baddeley et al. (2001)observed largely preserved functioning in which two measures of Jon's abilities that contradicted the simplified modal model of amnesia?

The Multiple Trace Hypothesis argues for a role of the hippocampus in:

The type of amnesia referring to a problem in encoding, storing, or retrieving ongoing information that can be used in the future is most precisely termed:

The most prominent cause of senile dementia currently is:

Which of the following is specifically designed to help patients with Alzheimer's disease maintain a sense of personal identity by recollecting their past in the form of a life story book, for example?

Having recovered from PTA, the patient is likely to present:

Assessment is particularly important for all of the following reasons described in the text, EXCEPT:

Which of the following is NOT typically true of Alzheimer's Disease?

Which type of confabulation tends to be the more florid, less common variety and is often linked to frontal lobe damage?

Stickgold et al. (2000)and Gaskell and Dumay (2003)provided some of the evidence suggesting that long-term retention is improved when learning is followed by which of these?

A movement within memory to extend the study of memory from the confines of the laboratory to the world outside is called:

Della Sala's research group in Edinburgh observed that information retention by amnesic patients was greatly improved if the learning was immediately followed by which of the following?

Warrington and Weiskrantz (1970)hypothesised that which of the following leads to a retrieval deficit they believed was at the root of amnesia, a hypothesis that has come to face certain challenges?

Factual knowledge about one's own past is called:

Two cardinal signs of AD are:

Which of the following deficits did Meltzer NOT experience?

While amnesic patients may not have difficulty imagining components of future activities, they tend to have difficulty integrating them into a whole, a problem Hassabis et al. (2007)attribute to:

Which of the following characterizes observations about the patient Jon?

The patient Jon has come to display all of the following characteristics, EXCEPT:

What Is Memory

Memory and the Brain

Short-Term Memory

Working Memory

Learning

Episodic Memory: Organizing and Remembering

Semantic Memory and Stored Knowledge

Retrieval

Incidental Forgetting

Motivated Forgetting

Autobiographical Memory

Eyewitness Testimony

Prospective Memory

Memory Across the Lifespan: Growing up

Memory and Aging

Improving Your Memory

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