Exam 8: Learning and Memory

Describe the Baddeley-Hitch model of working memory.In your answer,provide the names and descriptions for the three major components of the model,along with their likely neurological correlates.

Dopamine is the neurotransmitter most associated with long-term potentiation.

Lesions to the hippocampus typically do not result in profound memory problems unless the lesions also encompass the amygdala.

Long-term potentiation does NOT occur unless the neurotransmitter ________ is present in the synapse to bind to postsynaptic NMDA receptors.

A 1957 study of patients who had undergone removal of the medial temporal lobe for the treatment of epilepsy suggested that

In the delayed nonmatching to sample task,animals are taught in a single trial that a specific object is associated with a food reward.When this object is shown again in a subsequent trial in the presence of a new object,the animal

Visual sensory memory is to ________ as auditory sensory memory is to ________.

Barbara remembers that Madrid is the capital of Spain,but she has no idea when or where she acquired this knowledge.Her ________ memory is accurate,but her ________ memory is incomplete.

It appears that the medial temporal lobes and the diencephalon are important in consolidating explicit long-term memories but are not themselves the storage sites for this knowledge because

George Miller and other investigators found that humans can hold about ________ items in short-term memory at a time.

Which of the following statements concerning types of memory in the modal model of memory is FALSE?

One finding that supports the idea that information in working memory is represented by an acoustic (auditory)code rather than a semantic (meaning-based)code is that when participants are given a list of words to learn and then are immediately tested for recall,

Deficits in memory as a function of brain damage,disease,or psychological trauma are known collectively as

Declarative or explicit memory is knowledge that

Your favorite cartoon character has been struck over the head and can no longer remember his name or where he lives.This is an example of

Hebbian learning occurs when

During memory retrieval,cortical regions that were important during encoding are reactivated.

________ memory,according to the modal model of memory,holds a great amount of information,but only for a very brief duration.

A patient visits a neurologist and complains of memory problems like remembering telephone numbers.After a few tests,the neurologist determines that there is a large impairment in the digit span,but no impairment in remembering the past or in forming new memories.Which brain area is the most likely to be impaired?

Chronic alcohol abuse,coupled with a vitamin-deficient diet,will likely damage what portion of the brain?