Exam 9: Memory

Patient H.M. had severe retrograde amnesia.

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

One of the most well-known neuropsychological case studies is the person known as patient H.M. Describe the region of the brain that was damaged in H.M. and the resulting neuropsychological deficits and dissociations for which his case is known.

________ refers to the processing of incoming information to be stored.

You learn of an experiment conducted in 1942 by a researcher named Malmo. Malmo discovered that monkeys with certain lesions were impaired in a delayed-response task, but not when the lights were turned off. Malmo hypothesized that switching off the lights removed potential interference. Which of the following theories incorporates this kind of short-term interference?

After suffering a severe head injury, a patient demonstrates a dense anterograde amnesia. She

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?

Classical conditioning is an example of a specific type of ________ memory.

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.

Describe the phenomenon of LTP. How does blocking LTP affect memory?

You diagnose two different patients, each with a form of dementia. Patient 1 has a neurogenerative disease; Patient 2 does NOT have a neurogenerative disease. Which of the following summarizes the two patient reports?

Patients with damage to the medial temporal lobe and hippocampus typically do not have difficulty performing short-term memory tasks such as the digit span.

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

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.

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

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

The result of acquisition and consolidation is to the process involved in accessing memory traces as __________ is to __________.

Decreased oxygenation and cell death is to ____________ as beta-amyloid proteins negatively affecting synapse formation and neuroplasticity is to ____________.

Which of the following best describes the flow of information in the Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) modal model of memory?