Deck 18: Extension: C - Learning and Memory

Question 1

According to the theories presented (consolidation theory, multiple - trace theory, reconsolidation theory), which is NOT a variable in retrograde amnesia?

A) hemispheric specialization
B) the number of times a memory is used
C) memory storage
D) the type of memory

Answer 1

hemispheric specialization

Question 2

The patient known as H.M. shows memory performance equal to that of normal control subjects in memory studies that include which manipulation?

A) visual search
B) spatial learning
C) mood congruence
D) priming

Answer 2

priming

Question 3

Which is a good way to test for implicit priming of memory?

A) the mirror-drawing task
B) the Gollin Incomplete-Figures Test
C) analogies
D) the Corsi block-tapping test

Answer 3

the Gollin Incomplete-Figures Test

Question 4

Nadel and Moscovitch's multiple - trace theory contends that there are three types of memory. Which type of memory is NOT included in their theory?

A) procedural
B) general semantic
C) autobiographical
D) factual semantic

Question 5

The _____ connects the hippocampus with the posterior neocortex.

A) perforant pathway
B) fimbria fornix
C) hippocampal commissure
D) stria terminalis

Question 6

Which question would be most difficult for H.M. to answer correctly?

A) What was your mother's maiden name?
B) How many days are there in 3 weeks?
C) Did you have any visitors the day before yesterday?
D) What is the sum of 6 plus 12?

Question 7

_____ is least affected by right temporal lobe damage.

A) Face recognition
B) Spatial position
C) Recall of consonant trigrams
D) Maze learning

Question 8

The first evidence that the temporal lobes had a role in memory was provided by _____.

A) Ebbinghaus
B) Lashley
C) Bekhterev
D) Scoville

Question 9

According to Tulving, autonoetic awareness-which is compromised with some types of frontal lobe damage-is best described as consciousness of:

A) one's own spatial location.
B) the functioning of one's sympathetic nervous system.
C) oneself as a continuous entity through time.
D) each of the distinct sensory experiences that are part of somatosensation.

Question 10

"HERA" stands for _____.

A) high emotional retrograde amnesia
B) hippocampal-entorhinal retrograde amnesia
C) hemispheric encoding and retrieval asymmetry
D) hologram encoding retrieval assessment

Question 11

Both Ammon's horn and the dentate gyrus are components of which brain structure that is crucial to learning and memory?

A) the amygdala
B) the hypothalamus
C) the cerebellum
D) the hippocampus

Question 12

Which is NOT a part of explicit memory functioning?

A) semantic memory
B) bottom-up processing
C) intentional remembering
D) episodic memory

Question 13

H.M.'s performance on the mirror - drawing task demonstrates his ability to display _____.

A) implicit memory formation
B) anterograde amnesia
C) logical reasoning
D) priming

Question 14

According to Petri and Mishkin, the _____ is NOT part of the proposed implicit memory system.

A) ventral thalamus
B) premotor cortex
C) hippocampus
D) basal ganglia

Question 15

Evidence from Korsakoff's patients suggests that the _____ is(are) involved in global amnesia.

A) frontal lobes
B) medial thalamus
C) basal cholinergic system
D) perirhinal cortex