Exam 8: Learning and Memory

The encoding of information to be stored involves two stages: ________,in which inputs in sensory buffers and sensory analysis stages are registered,and then ________,in which a stronger representation for storage is created.

Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding the role of NMDA receptors in mediating LTP in the brain?

Which brain structure is located in the medial temporal lobe and is of particular importance in the formation of new long-term memories?

Your textbook describes several different proposed distinctions in memory,including short-term and long-term,declarative and nondeclarative,and episodic and semantic.How do these different terms interrelate? What evidence supports these distinctions?

Following a case of encephalitis,a person has developed lesions in his anterior temporal lobes,but his medial temporal structures are intact.Which of the following is most likely to be true of this person?

Of the following choices,damage to the ________ is most likely to result in impairment to the visuospatial sketch pad,or visual working memory.

One major difference between the visual icon and the auditory echo is that the

Neuroimaging studies of the left and right hemispheres in memory function indicate that

Research using the mismatch field (MMF),which is the magnetic equivalent of the mismatch negativity (MMN),has suggested that auditory sensory memory has a duration of about

Korsakoff's syndrome is associated with alcoholism.

Scott Grafton and colleagues (1995)discovered that implicit versus explicit learning of a motor sequence produced differing patterns of brain activation.The overall conclusion reached in this study was that

Most forms of classical conditioning can be considered declarative memory.

The memory performance of Patients K.F.and E.E. ,when compared to the memory performance of people with amnesia,such as Patient H.M,demonstrates a double dissociation between two types of memory.Which of the following statements best describes these results?

Organizing individual bits of information into higher-order units can increase the amount of information that can be held in short-term memory.This strategy is called

The component that is responsible for acoustically coding information in working memory is the

Patient H.M.had severe retrograde amnesia.

In the Atkinson and Shiffrin modal model,information can be lost by both decay and interference at each stage.

After a brain injury,a person is found to have isolated retrograde amnesia.Which of the following brain regions is probably damaged?

Recent neuroimaging and neuropsychological work in memory has attempted to disentangle ________,which seems to implicate the hippocampus and the posterior parahippocampal cortex,from ________,which seems to implicate the entorhinal cortex.

Implicit memory is to ________ as explicit memory is to ________.