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Chapter 13: The Yin and Yang of Memory: Forgetting versus Maintenance
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 1
1. There are intrinsic forces operating to degrade the synaptic basis of memories.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 2
2. From the psychological perspective, all forgetting is a consequence of intrinsic neural processes that degrade synapses.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 3
3. Interference theories of forgetting assume that a second learning event could produce amnesia for a prior experience by interfering with the consolidation of the first event, provided the second event was similar to the first and occurred shortly after it.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 4
4. Neurobiologist assume that all forgetting is due to a retrieval failure.
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5. A retrieval failure can be the result of two similar memories competing for expression.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 6
6. Inhibiting NMDA receptor function during the retention interval enhances the rate of forgetting.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 7
7. Inhibiting NMDA receptor function during the retention interval can prevent forgetting.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 8
8. According the results obtained by Migues et al., forgetting can be prevented if the endocytic removal of AMPA receptors is inhibited.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 9
9. The peptide GluR23y enhances the removal NMDA receptors from the PSD.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 10
10. The peptide GluR23y inhibits the removal AMPA receptors from the PSD.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 11
11. Enhancing NMDA function during the retention interval produces rapid forgetting.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 12
12. Inhibition of either NMDA receptors or voltage-dependent calcium channels (vdCCs) can prevent the forgetting of an object-location memory.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 13
13. Enhancing NMDA function during the retention interval prevents forgetting, whereas inhibiting NMDA function accelerates forgetting.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 14
14. Enhancing NMDA function during the retention interval accelerates forgetting, whereas inhibiting NMDA function prevents forgetting.
a. True
b. False
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 15
15. In its active state the GTPase Rac1 often leads to rapid forgetting. If Rac1 is inactive, however, the rate of forgetting is markedly slower.
a. True
b. False
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 16
16. Stress produced by social isolation increases the rate of forgetting because it puts Rac1 in the inactive state.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 17
17. Stress produced by social isolation increases the rate of forgetting because it puts Rac1 in the active state.
a. True
b. False
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 18
18. The consolidation period ends when the memory trace is no longer vulnerable to the disruption of transcription and translation processes.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 19
19. The consolidation period ends when the memory trace is no longer vulnerable to the disruption of ZIP.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 20
20. PKMζ may have evolved to prevent forgetting.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 21
21. ZIP erases established memories, even if the memory is 25 days old.
a. True
b. False
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 22
22. PKMζ can enhance already established memories.
a. True
b. False
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 23
23. ZIP will erase taste-aversion memories only if injected at a specific time after acquisition.
a. True
b. False
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 1
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 24
24. By interfering with NMDA receptor function, PKMζ can prevent forgetting.
a. True
b. False
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 25
25. By interfering with AMPA receptor endocytosis, PKMζ can prevent forgetting.
a. True
b. False
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 26
26. Enhancing NMDA function during the retention interval enhances forgetting whereas inhibiting NMDA function accelerates forgetting.
a. True
b. False
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 27
27. The dominate negative PKMζ construct enhances forgetting because it is highly active.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 28
28. Describe the competing memory theory of forgetting.
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 29
29. Why did Brian Derrick conclude that the activation NMDA receptors during the retention interval produces forgetting?
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 30
30. How did Migues et al. confirm the importance of NMDA receptor function for forgetting?
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 31
31. Why does GluR23y prevent forgetting?
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 32
32. Imagine a drug that inhibited the activity of Rac1. What effect should this drug have on forgetting?
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 33
33. Dudai used two strategies to assess the role of PKMζ in preventing forgetting. What were they?
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 34
34. Why does PKMζ decrease the rate of forgetting?
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Title: Chapter 13 - Question 35
35. What might be the important brain adaptation that is responsible for why we forget?