Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience Instructor Answer Guide
Multiple Choice
18.1 Memory is Classified Based on Time Course and Type of Information Stored
1. Which type of memory has a timescale of seconds?
a. Sensory memory
b. Working memory
c. Long-term memory
d. Short-term memory
Answer: a
2. Which type of memory has a timescale of hours to a lifetime?
a. Sensory memory
b. Working memory
c. Long-term memory
d. Short-term memory
Answer: c
3. Which is the process by which information in working memory is converted into long-
term memories?
a. Consolidation
b. Recall
c. Retrieval
d. Reconsolidation
Answer: a
4. Patient H.M. had the anterior two-thirds of his medial temporal lobe removed. As a
result, he suffered from _____, or the inability to form new memories.
a. dementia
b. Alzheimer’s disease
c. retrograde amnesia
d. anterograde amnesia
Answer: d
5. Patient H.M. displayed intact skill-based knowledge or ________, even though he had no
memory of having practiced the skills that had been learned.
a. episodic memory
b. declarative memory
, c. procedural memory
d. explicit memory
Answer: c
6. Which structural abnormality is associated with Alzheimer’s disease?
a. Neurofibrillary tangles
b. Amyloid beta plaques
c. Brain shrinking and enlargement of the ventricles
d. All of the above
Answer: d
7. Which is thought to causes the memory problems associated with temporal lobe
epilepsy?
a. The seizures themselves
b. The medications used to treat the seizure
c. Interictal epileptiform discharges
d. All of the above
Answer: d
18.2 Implicit Memories: Associative vs. Nonassociative Learning
8. Which are the two main types of non-associative learning?
a. Negative and positive reinforcement learning
b. Operant and classical conditioning
c. Habituation and sensitization
d. Cued fear learning and contextual fear learning
Answer: c
9. You are performing an operant conditioning experiment with a rodent, and you would
like it to increase the frequency of a behavior (lever pressing). To accomplish this, you
could:
a. present a positive stimulus or remove a positive stimulus after a lever press.
b. present a positive stimulus or remove a negative stimulus after a lever press.
c. present a negative stimulus or remove a negative stimulus after a lever press.
d. present a negative stimulus or remove a negative stimulus after a lever press.
Answer: b
10. In cued fear conditioning, the animal:
a. learns to pull a lever when a tone is presented.
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Multiple Choice
18.1 Memory is Classified Based on Time Course and Type of Information Stored
1. Which type of memory has a timescale of seconds?
a. Sensory memory
b. Working memory
c. Long-term memory
d. Short-term memory
Answer: a
2. Which type of memory has a timescale of hours to a lifetime?
a. Sensory memory
b. Working memory
c. Long-term memory
d. Short-term memory
Answer: c
3. Which is the process by which information in working memory is converted into long-
term memories?
a. Consolidation
b. Recall
c. Retrieval
d. Reconsolidation
Answer: a
4. Patient H.M. had the anterior two-thirds of his medial temporal lobe removed. As a
result, he suffered from _____, or the inability to form new memories.
a. dementia
b. Alzheimer’s disease
c. retrograde amnesia
d. anterograde amnesia
Answer: d
5. Patient H.M. displayed intact skill-based knowledge or ________, even though he had no
memory of having practiced the skills that had been learned.
a. episodic memory
b. declarative memory
, c. procedural memory
d. explicit memory
Answer: c
6. Which structural abnormality is associated with Alzheimer’s disease?
a. Neurofibrillary tangles
b. Amyloid beta plaques
c. Brain shrinking and enlargement of the ventricles
d. All of the above
Answer: d
7. Which is thought to causes the memory problems associated with temporal lobe
epilepsy?
a. The seizures themselves
b. The medications used to treat the seizure
c. Interictal epileptiform discharges
d. All of the above
Answer: d
18.2 Implicit Memories: Associative vs. Nonassociative Learning
8. Which are the two main types of non-associative learning?
a. Negative and positive reinforcement learning
b. Operant and classical conditioning
c. Habituation and sensitization
d. Cued fear learning and contextual fear learning
Answer: c
9. You are performing an operant conditioning experiment with a rodent, and you would
like it to increase the frequency of a behavior (lever pressing). To accomplish this, you
could:
a. present a positive stimulus or remove a positive stimulus after a lever press.
b. present a positive stimulus or remove a negative stimulus after a lever press.
c. present a negative stimulus or remove a negative stimulus after a lever press.
d. present a negative stimulus or remove a negative stimulus after a lever press.
Answer: b
10. In cued fear conditioning, the animal:
a. learns to pull a lever when a tone is presented.
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