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Ch9 Making Memories Conceptual Issues Test Bank + Answers

Chapter 9: Making Memories: Conceptual Issues and Methodologies

Test Bank

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 1

1. Studies of LTP provide a foundation for uncovering memory molecules.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 2

2. LTP is memory.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 3

3. If damage to a particular brain region impairs test performance, we can assume that regions contained memory neurons.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 4

4. Damage to a particular brain region, X, impaired performance on a memory test. This result is consistent with the hypothesis that X is a memory-storage region.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 5

5. Short-term memories decay more rapidly than long-term memories.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 6

6. Long-term memories are more vulnerable to disruption than short-term memories.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 7

7. Limited retrograde amnesia produced by a concussion likely affects only memories in the active state.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 8

8. Behavior is the product of many subcomponent systems.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 9

9. Consolidation refers to the process of converting strong memories in to weak ones.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 10

10. Consolidation refers to the process of increasing the memory trace’s resistance to disruption.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 11

11. Amnesia is always due to a storage failure.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 12

12. If amnesia is due to a retrieval failure, the lost memory can be recovered.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 13

13. If amnesia is due to a storage failure, the lost memory can be recovered.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 14

14. An advantage of the inhibitory avoidance task is that only one trial is needed to produce a behavioral change.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 15

15. A ceiling effect is said to occur if the response measure is already at the maximum.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 16

16. If the experimenter wants to study a drug that might interfere with memory, then the floor effect would be a problem to avoid.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 17

17. Fear conditioning provides the opportunity to measure both context learning and auditory-cue learning.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 18

18. Place-learning in the Morris water task uses a visible platform.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 19

19. On a probe test in the Morris water task, the hidden platform is removed.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 20

20. In the object-recognition test, memory is demonstrated if the animal spends more time exploring the new object.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 21

21. In the object-in-context task, animal memory is demonstrated if the animal spends more time exploring the object that was present in the training context.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 22

22. The advantage of stereotaxic surgery it that the experimenter can precisely place the electrode or cannula in the desired location.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 23

23. Viral vectors are used to deliver drugs to specific regions in the brain.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 24

24. Viral vectors are used to deliver mRNA constructs to specific regions in the brain.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 25

25. Viral vectors are not part of the optogenetics methodology.

Answer; False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 26

26. Activation of channelrhodopsin by green light will allow sodium to enter the channel.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 27

27. Activation of channelrhodopsin by blue light will allow sodium to enter the channel.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 28

28. The DREADD methodology takes more time to activate of inhibit neurons than optogenetics.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 29

29. The existence of a memory trace is inferred when the training experience influences behavior.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 30

30. Why is test behavior considered the window to the memory trace?

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 31

31. What is the consolidation period?

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 32

32. Explain why the ECS methodology did not advance our understanding of memory.

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 33

33. Name three methods for influencing brain function.

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 34

34. What is the significance of the learning–performance distinction?

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 35

35. List three differences between a short-term memory trace and a long-term memory trace.

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 36

36. What is a time-limited retrograde amnesia?

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 37

37. What is the difference between amnesia due to a retrieval failure compared to a storage failure?

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 38

38. Explain the floor effect.

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 39

39. What are the unconditioned stimulus, the conditioned stimulus, and the conditioned response in fear conditioning methodology?

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 40

40. How is the visible-platform task used to evaluate results observed in the place-learning task? Explain why.

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 41

41. Explain why genetic engineering is believed to be more precise than applying drugs in manipulating the molecules involved in memory.

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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 42

42. What is the function of channelrhodopsin and halorhodopsins?

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Chapter 9 Making Memories Conceptual Issues And Methodologies
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