Test Bank Memory Systems And The Hippocampus Chapter.16 - Neurobiology Learning 3e | Test Bank Rudy by Jerry W. Rudy. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 16: Memory Systems and the Hippocampus
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 1
1. The brain has specialized systems to store the different kind of memories, but the content of our experience does not matter to the brain.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 2
2. The details that make up an episode and the emotional impact of the experience are stored in different brain regions.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 3
3. The patient in Claparède’s experiment could remember that Claparède stuck him with a pin but would still shake hands.
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b. False
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4. The patient in Claparède’s experiment could not remember that Claparède stuck him with a pin but would not shake hands.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 5
5. Scoville surgically removed the most of the hippocampus, amygdala, and surrounding cortical regions.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 6
6. Henry Molaison had extensive anterograde and retrograde amnesia, but his short-term memory was intact.
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b. False
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7. Henry Molaison could not learn or retain any new skills.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 8
8. It is difficult to develop an animal model of episodic memory because animals can’t directly tell the experiment what they recall.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 9
9. Initial experiments by Mishkin revealed that damage to either the hippocampus or the amygdala had very little effect on delayed nonmatching to sample (DNMS) performance.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 10
10. Initial experiments by Mishkin revealed that damage to either the hippocampus or the amygdala had severe effect on DNMS performance.
a. True
b. False
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 11
11. The delay matching to sample task requires the subject to choose the previously sampled object.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 12
12. Damage to the hippocampus or the amygdala did not impair performance on the DNMS task.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 13
13. The delay matching to sample task requires the subject to choose the novel object.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 14
14. The delay matching to sample task can be performed without a hippocampus.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 15
15. One cannot have a sense of familiarity without recollection.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 16
16. Recollection includes content that is supported by the episodic memory system, but familiarity does not.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 17
17. It is likely that the monkeys with damage to the hippocampus were using recognition based on familiarity to perform the DNMS.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 18
18. It is likely that the monkeys with damage to the hippocampus were using recognition based on recollection to perform the DNMS.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 19
19. The correct choice on the DNMS task is the sample object
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 20
20. According to the modular view, the entorhinal cortex is on top of the hierarchy for semantic memory.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 21
21. According to the modular view, the entorhinal cortex is on top of the hierarchy for episodic memory.
a. True
b. False
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 22
22. According to the modular view, the hippocampal formation is not required for semantic memory.
a. True
b. False
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 23
23. According to the unitary view, the hippocampal formation is required for episodic memory but not for semantic.
a. True
b. False
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 24
24. According to the unitary view, components of the MTH system are relatively dedicated to specific functions.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 25
25. Endel Tulving argued that episodic memory should be considered as separate from declarative memory.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 26
26. Patients with selective damage to the hippocampus that was sustained in early childhood had impaired cognitive function and severe amnesia.
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 27
27. Patients with selective damage to the hippocampus that was sustained in early childhood had normal cognitive function and severe episodic memory impairments. amnesia.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 28
28. What is the multiple memory systems perspective?
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 29
29. What evidence supports the conclusion that the details that make up an episode and the emotional impact of the experience are stored in different brain regions?
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 30
30. What evidence supports the conclusion that the memory system that supports skillful behaviors is outside of the region of the brain that supports our ability to recollect the training episodes?
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 31
31. Henry Molaison was not the first patient to display amnesia for certain types of information. What was unique about his case?
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 32
32. Did Henry Molaison’s case provide evidence for the multiple memory systems view? Defend your answer.
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 33
33. What primary regions were surgically removed from Henry Molaison’s brain?
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 34
34. What is the function of the episodic memory system?
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35. What is a problem with the animal model for studying episodic memory?
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 36
36. What are the two important features of the DNMS task?
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 37
37. Initial research with monkeys showed that damage of both the hippocampus and the amygdala was necessary to impair episodic memory. What was wrong with those experiments?
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 38
38. Provide an example of recognition without recall.
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 39
39. What is an important difference between recognition based on recollection versus recognition based on familiarity?
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 40
40. How are episodic and semantic memory systems similar? How are they different?
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 41
41. Compare the unitary view and the modular view of the medial temporal hippocampal system.
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Title: Chapter 16 - Question 42
42. What brought Vargha-Khadem and her colleagues to the conclusion that there was a disproportionate sparing of semantic memory compared to episodic memory in patients who suffered selective damage to their hippocampus early in life?