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

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

4. __________ and ________________ identify the factors that make declarative memory prone to inaccuracy (Schacter pg 211).

retrieval, confabulation
time stamping, extinction
consolidation, source memory
consolidation, forgetting
long term potentiation, localized retrieval

5. (T/F) The hippocampus is the location where information is permanently stored (Schacter pg 212).

True
False

6. (T/F) Source memory is a dissociable component of a recollection that can occur independently of the strength of the recollection itself (pg 216) and is dependent on the parietal cortex (pg 218)

True
False

7. The criterion used to classify amnesia include (pg 250)

aetiology
specificity
span
the persistence of the amnesia
all of the above
none of the above

8. (T/F) Memory consolidation is the fixation process that develops over time and forms a permanent engram in the nervous system.

True
False


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