N152 Unit 8: Memory Disorders Exam With
Complete Solutions
What is memory - ANSWER an organism's mental ability to store, retain, and recall info
Long term memory - ANSWER - seconds to decades
- long term potentiation (LTP)
- "hard drive" of a computer
Short term/working memory - ANSWER - lasts about 2 seconds w/o rehearsal
- temporary potentiation
Limited capacity, temporary memory is ... - ANSWER limited to 3-4 objects in visual
working memory
Define Time-scale - ANSWER - about 2 seconds w/o rehearsal
- can be maintained with rehearsal
Define the phonological loop - ANSWER - verbal (auditory) working memory
- auditory memory traces
Define the visuospatial sketchpad - ANSWER visual working memory
What is the dual-task paradigm - ANSWER gives evidence that separate processes
comes form this
- e.g. listening to a task while doing a visual task
, working memory is associated with ... - ANSWER DLPFC
emotion is associated with what area(s) of the PFC - ANSWER orbitofrontal and
ventromedial
executive function is associated with what region of the PFC - ANSWER medial and
lateral PFC
What are the two types of long term memory - ANSWER explicit and implicit
What is declarative/explicit memory - ANSWER - semantic memory (facts, info)
- episodic memory (experience)
What is procedural/implicit memory - ANSWER - unconscious skills you have learned
- encoded by cerebellum and basal ganglia
Types of amnesia - ANSWER anterograde amnesia, retrograde amnesia, transient
global amnesia
Define anterogade amnesia - ANSWER new events are not stored in long term memory
Retrograde amnesia - ANSWER unable to recall memories of the past
Transient global amnesia - ANSWER temporary memory loss lasting less than 24 hrs
Anterograde amnesia patient Henry Molaison - ANSWER - surgery to cure severe
epilepsy removed bilateral parts of temporal lobes
- he was left w/ severe anterograde amnesia and mild retrograde amnesia
Complete Solutions
What is memory - ANSWER an organism's mental ability to store, retain, and recall info
Long term memory - ANSWER - seconds to decades
- long term potentiation (LTP)
- "hard drive" of a computer
Short term/working memory - ANSWER - lasts about 2 seconds w/o rehearsal
- temporary potentiation
Limited capacity, temporary memory is ... - ANSWER limited to 3-4 objects in visual
working memory
Define Time-scale - ANSWER - about 2 seconds w/o rehearsal
- can be maintained with rehearsal
Define the phonological loop - ANSWER - verbal (auditory) working memory
- auditory memory traces
Define the visuospatial sketchpad - ANSWER visual working memory
What is the dual-task paradigm - ANSWER gives evidence that separate processes
comes form this
- e.g. listening to a task while doing a visual task
, working memory is associated with ... - ANSWER DLPFC
emotion is associated with what area(s) of the PFC - ANSWER orbitofrontal and
ventromedial
executive function is associated with what region of the PFC - ANSWER medial and
lateral PFC
What are the two types of long term memory - ANSWER explicit and implicit
What is declarative/explicit memory - ANSWER - semantic memory (facts, info)
- episodic memory (experience)
What is procedural/implicit memory - ANSWER - unconscious skills you have learned
- encoded by cerebellum and basal ganglia
Types of amnesia - ANSWER anterograde amnesia, retrograde amnesia, transient
global amnesia
Define anterogade amnesia - ANSWER new events are not stored in long term memory
Retrograde amnesia - ANSWER unable to recall memories of the past
Transient global amnesia - ANSWER temporary memory loss lasting less than 24 hrs
Anterograde amnesia patient Henry Molaison - ANSWER - surgery to cure severe
epilepsy removed bilateral parts of temporal lobes
- he was left w/ severe anterograde amnesia and mild retrograde amnesia
