Learning and Memory
Study Questions
Remember that you should choose only one answer at a time.
1. Frontal lobe dysfunction in humans
A. is modeled in rats by lesions of the frontal lobes
B. impairs a persons ability to store information
C. does not effect performance in the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test
D. is said by Squire to impair the ability to place ones-self autobiographically within a particular episode.
E. prevents eyeblink conditioning in cats
A & D
C & D
2. (T./F) There is evidence that damage to the ventomedial frontal lobe can produce deficits in both semantic and episodic memory
True
False
3. (T/F) Confabulation is only seen in specific cases of Parkinsons disease.
True
False
4. Evidence for the frontal cortical regions being involved in 'working memory comes from
cell firing data in primates performing simple reaching tasks
studies using rats and the Morris water maze
cell firing data in primates performing a delayed matching to sample task
Omission
Confabulation
Lashley's work
5. (T/F) An impaired ability to plan effectively is a symptom of frontal lobe dysfunction.
True
False
6. (T/F) The monitoring an inhibition of incorrect responses is thought to be mediated by the ventromedial frontal cortex, while strategic search strategies are carried out by the cerebellum.
True
False
7. Knowing how is another way of saying that one has acquired _________ memory.
A. Skill
B. Procedural
C. habit
D. non-declarative
E. all of the above
F. none of the above
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