Learning and Memory
Study Questions
Remember that you should choose only one answer at a time. Learning and Memory 

1. What are examples that demonstrate an ability to learn in amnesiacs?

1. Priming 2. Procedural tasks such as the tower of hanoi 3. Operant conditioning (win-stay, lose-shift tasks) 4. Describing a recently experienced event

A. 1, 3
B. 1, 2, 4
C. 1, 2, 3
D. all of the above
E. none of the above

2. 4. The relationship between conscious and nonconscious knowledge or memory is thought to be such that... (ch 7)

1) Tsukahara's work on limb flexion 2) Plasticity in cortical-rubral connections 3) Formation of connections between facial N. and red nucleus

A. unconscious memory is simply below threshold for accessibility and could potentially be made availabe to awareness.
B. Separate structures are involved in conscious and unconscious memory
C. unconscious memory is stored as a habit and thus not accessible to conscious thought
D. consious memory is accompanied by an awareness of having been influenced by past events
E. unconscious memory does not carry with it any awareness that behavior is in fact being influenced by past experience because.
F. all of the above
G. none of the above

3. The _____________ serves as a place where multimodal information is processed and temporarily stored, and long-term memory is stored in the neocortex.

A. A. medial diencephalic/temporal lobe
B. red nucleus
C. cerebellum/inferior olivary nucleus
D. all of the above
E. none of the above

4. The selectivity distirbuted processing model

provides a model that trie to explain classical conditioning.
a model of the nictating membrane response
suggests that memories are not stored in the limbic system
suggests that memories are stored in the temporal lobes
suggests that memories are stored in the thalamus

5. H.M was a pivotal case study with respect to memory and memory formation because:

different types of information are stored in different ways
relationship between limbic system and explicit or delcarative memory
memory functions can be dissasociated from other mental functions
1 and 2
all of the above

6.(T/F) Capgras syndrome is associated with deficits in motor learning.

True
False

7. (T/F) Architectural and computational complexity of the interaction between limbic and associational cortex provides human memory with remarkable flexibility and inventiveness at the expense of possible distortion.

True
False


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