PBSI 332 Exam #1 questions with
verified answers
Learning - correct answer ✔✔the process by which new information is acquired for storage;
initiated by experience, filters experience
Memory - correct answer ✔✔information extracted from experience and stored for later use;
persists after remembered experience ends
Perception only lasts... - correct answer ✔✔as long as experience does
Memory can... - correct answer ✔✔enter a latent state before retrieval; minimally reflect the
experience that created it
The existence of learning and memory is an.... - correct answer ✔✔inference, not something we
directly observe
Experience observable --> learning-memory inferred --> behavior observable - correct answer
✔✔Relationship between past experience and future behavior
Learning and memory have... - correct answer ✔✔explanatory power: they turn a dry recitation
of inputs and outputs into a functional account of how and why the mind works
observable experience --> brain states --> observable behavior - correct answer
✔✔Neuroscientific basis for the relationship between past experience and future behavior
, Engram - correct answer ✔✔The neurobiological representation of stored information in the
brain
encoded - correct answer ✔✔process by which engrams are formed (learned)
behavioral neuroscience - correct answer ✔✔links psychological and neuroscientific approaches
to understand brain-behavior relationships
psychological approach provides ____, neuroscientific approach provides _____. - correct
answer ✔✔function; mechanism
Ebbinghaus - correct answer ✔✔forgetting curve; nonsense syllables
William James - correct answer ✔✔founder of functionalism, multi-stage process of memory
sensory buffering --> short term memory --> long term memory - correct answer ✔✔multi-
stage process of memory
Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve is explained by... - correct answer ✔✔the overlapping decay rate
of short and long-term memory
Consolidation - correct answer ✔✔the process by which a long-term memory stabilizes for
storage over an extended period of time; occurs in parallel with short term memory; why long
term memory endures in an inactive state
Patient HM - correct answer ✔✔Had medial temporal lobe removed, including hippocampus
and amygdala
verified answers
Learning - correct answer ✔✔the process by which new information is acquired for storage;
initiated by experience, filters experience
Memory - correct answer ✔✔information extracted from experience and stored for later use;
persists after remembered experience ends
Perception only lasts... - correct answer ✔✔as long as experience does
Memory can... - correct answer ✔✔enter a latent state before retrieval; minimally reflect the
experience that created it
The existence of learning and memory is an.... - correct answer ✔✔inference, not something we
directly observe
Experience observable --> learning-memory inferred --> behavior observable - correct answer
✔✔Relationship between past experience and future behavior
Learning and memory have... - correct answer ✔✔explanatory power: they turn a dry recitation
of inputs and outputs into a functional account of how and why the mind works
observable experience --> brain states --> observable behavior - correct answer
✔✔Neuroscientific basis for the relationship between past experience and future behavior
, Engram - correct answer ✔✔The neurobiological representation of stored information in the
brain
encoded - correct answer ✔✔process by which engrams are formed (learned)
behavioral neuroscience - correct answer ✔✔links psychological and neuroscientific approaches
to understand brain-behavior relationships
psychological approach provides ____, neuroscientific approach provides _____. - correct
answer ✔✔function; mechanism
Ebbinghaus - correct answer ✔✔forgetting curve; nonsense syllables
William James - correct answer ✔✔founder of functionalism, multi-stage process of memory
sensory buffering --> short term memory --> long term memory - correct answer ✔✔multi-
stage process of memory
Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve is explained by... - correct answer ✔✔the overlapping decay rate
of short and long-term memory
Consolidation - correct answer ✔✔the process by which a long-term memory stabilizes for
storage over an extended period of time; occurs in parallel with short term memory; why long
term memory endures in an inactive state
Patient HM - correct answer ✔✔Had medial temporal lobe removed, including hippocampus
and amygdala
