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3e Test Questions & Answers Chapter.11 Memory Consolidation

Chapter 11: Memory Consolidation

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Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 1

1. Short-term memories are more vulnerable to disruption than long-term memories.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 2

2. The decay rate for long-term memories is more rapid than the decay rate for short-term memories.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 3

3. If a molecule is critical for long-term memory, it should also be critical for short-term memory.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 4

4. To determine the role of a molecule in memory the experiment should use at least two retention intervals.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 5

5. A memory may be considered consolidated when it is no longer vulnerable to transcription and translation inhibitors.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 6

6. Blocking protein synthesis interferes with the formation of short-term memories.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 7

7. Alberini’s laboratory found that inhibiting protein synthesis (with anisomycin) a few minutes after training did not interfere with retention two days after training but did prevent retention seven and nine days later.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 8

8. Rapamycin administer prior to training interfered with retention one hour later.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 9

9. Rapamycin administer prior to training interfered with retention two and seven days later.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 10

10. That rapamycin administers just before training interfered with retention two and seven days later indicates that the mTOR pathway is critically for at least two ways of protein synthesis.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 11

11. Disrupting either the mTORC1 or the mTORC2 complex will impair the development of long-term memory but have no influence on the formation of short-term memory.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 12

12. The mTORC2 complex regulates protein synthesis but the mTORC1 complex regulates actin polymerization.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 13

13. The mTORC2 complex regulates actin polymerization but the mTORC1 complex regulates protein synthesis.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 14

14. The TOP protein 4E-BP normally interferes with the initiation of local protein synthesis.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 15

15. If the first wave of BDNF protein synthesis is blocked retention at both the one- and seven-day interval will be impaired.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 16

16. The BDNF-TrkB pathway is critical to two waves of protein synthesis.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 17

17. The second wave of protein synthesis depends on genomic signaling initiated by the BDNF-TrkB pathway.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 18

18. The TrkB receptor is activated by the first messenger glutamate.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 19

19. C/EBPβ is targeted by CaMKII for transcription.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 20

20. C/EBPβ is targeted by CREB for transcription.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 21

21. C/EBPβ is a transcription factor.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 22

22. C/EBPβ is critical to the first wave of protein synthesis.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 23

23. C/EBPβ is critical to the second wave of protein synthesis.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 24

24. Inhibiting protein synthesis should effect short-term memory.

a. True

b. False

25 The mTORC1 complex is important to local protein synthesis.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 26

26. If C/EBPβ is inhibited, BDNF will be transcribed

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 27

27. What is the key independent variable manipulated to determine if a molecule is selectively involved in LTM but not STM?

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 28

28. What is the retention interval?

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 29

29. A drug inhibits molecule X, and it impaired performance at the long, 24-hour retention interval but had no effect on performance at the short, 1-hour retention interval. What can be said about the contribution of molecule X to memory?

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 30

30. How did John Guzowski examine the importance of CREB for memory retention?

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 31

31. What were the results and implications of systematically injecting the protein-synthesis inhibitor anisomycin prior to fear conditioning?

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 32

32. Why would one vary the interval separating training and the administration of a protein synthesis inhibitor such as anisomycin?

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 33

33. Anisomycin administered just prior to training prevents retention at two-, seven-, and nine-day intervals. But, if anisomycin is administered just a few minutes following training, it only impairs retention at the seven- and nine-day intervals. What does this collection of findings imply?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 34

34. What is the role of C/EBPβ in the autoregulatory loop?

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 35

35. What is the role of BDNF in the autoregulatory loop?

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 36

36. What are the differences between mTORC1 and mTORC2?

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 37

37. What is the evidence that proteins translated in response to the mTORC1 signaling are important for the consolidation of long-term memory but not for producing a short-term memory?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 38

38. Why is the rictor KO mouse useful?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 39

39. What is the importance of the two distinct peak levels of BDNF expression?

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 40

40. Describe two sources of evidence that BDNF is important for memory consolidation.

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 11 - Question 41

41. How might sleep contribute to consolidation?

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Title: Chapter 11 - Question 42

42. What is the evidence that the UPS is involved in memory consolidation?

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Chapter 11 Memory Consolidation
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