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Chapter.15 The Fate Of Retrieved Memories Exam Prep

Chapter 15: The Fate of Retrieved Memories

Test Bank

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 1

1. Cue-dependent amnesia refers to the forgetting induced by the retrieval of another memory.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 2

2. Cue-dependent amnesia refers to a phenomenon in which retrieving a memory returns it into a labile state that makes it vulnerable to disruption.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 3

3. Memories are destabilized when their retrieval memory returns them to a state of vulnerability.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 4

4. The age of a memory trace is the only determinant of its vulnerability.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 5

5. Retrieving or reactivating the memory always makes it stronger.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 6

6. Lewis discovered that all memories are vulnerable to disruption by electroconvulsive shock (ECS).

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 7

7. Lewis discovered that reactivated memories are vulnerable to disruption by electroconvulsive shock (ECS).

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 8

8. According to Lewis’s active memory theory, remembering an old, consolidated memory will return it to an active state and make vulnerable to disruption.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 9

9. According to Lewis’s active trace theory, both very new memories and retrieved memories are vulnerable to disruption.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 10

10. Nader discovered that when injected into the BLA following a reactivation treatment, anisomycin had no effect on the short-term memory test but did produce a large impairment on the long-term memory test.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 11

11. According to reconsolidation theory, retrieving a consolidated memory can unbind or destabilize the supporting synapses.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 12

12. According to active trace theory, retrieving a consolidated memory is enough to disrupt it.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 13

13. The loss of an anchoring scaffolding protein, such as PSD-95, plays a role in the disruption of reactivated memories.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 14

14. Destabilization of the memory trace is mediated by the ubiquitin proteasome system.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 15

15. As implied by the work of Karim Nader, inhibiting AMPA receptors should prevent memory destabilization.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 16

16. As implied by the work of Karim Nader, inhibiting NMDA receptors or the proteasome should prevent destabilization.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 17

17. Anisomycin’s effects on retrieved memory depend on proteasome activity.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 18

18. If either NMDA receptors and vdCCs are antagonized, or the UPS system is inhibited, anisomycin will have no effect the reactivated memory trace.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 19

19. If the information contained in the retrieved memory matches the information contained in the test environment, the memory trace will be destabilized.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 20

20. A prediction error occurs when the information contained in the retrieved memory does not match the information contained in the test environment.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 21

21. The brain treats a reactivated memory as a novel experience, so it is modified/updated according to the new context.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 22

22. Erasing memories that associate environmental cues with taking a drug, such as cocaine, can prevent cravings and relapse.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 23

23. In order for repetition to strengthen the memory, the established trace must be destabilized.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 24

24. The memory-strengthening effect of repetition can be prevented by inhibiting the AMPA receptors.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 25

25. The memory-strengthening effect of repetition can be prevented by inhibiting the proteasome.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 26

26. Retrieving a memory depends on NMDA receptors.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 27

27. Retrieving a memory depends on AMPA receptors.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 28

28. Inhibiting AMPA receptors impairs the retrieval of the memory and its destabilization.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 29

29. Inhibiting NMDA receptors impairs the retrieval of the memory and its destabilization.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 30

30. According to integration theory, the amnesia produced when drugs like anisomycin are given after the memory is retrieved is due to a storage failure.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 31

31. The encoding specificity principle asserts that successful memory retrieval depends on a match between the retrieval cues and the environmental stimulation encoded into the engram.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 32

32. According to the encoding specificity principle, the absence of critical retrieval cues will enhance memory retrieval.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 33

33. According to the state-dependent learning view, internal states present at the time of a learning experience become part of the engram and need to be present in order to retrieve the memory.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 34

34. According to integration theory, the amnesia produced when drugs like anisomycin are given after the memory is retrieved is due to a retrieval failure.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 15 - Question 35

35. Cues associated with taking drugs are irrelevant to drug-addiction relapse.

a. True

b. False