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Memory

Total questions: 64

Worksheet time: 37mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Neuron's that fire together, wire together.

What is this law?

a)

Hebb's Law

b)

Ribot’s law

c)

Korsakoff’s law

d)

Tulving's law

2.

Atkinson and Shiffrin's Three Stage model of memory regarded short-term memory as a single entity that is essential for all longterm learning. This model was replaced by...

a)

Working Memory Models

b)

Binary Models

c)

Franco-European Models

d)

Ebbinghausian Models

3.

Modern models tend to view Short Term Memory as...

a)

A subset of Working Memory

b)

A temporary activation of Long Term Memory

c)

A single entity

d)

Essential for Long Term Memory

4.

What brain areas are associated with the Phonological Loop?

a)

BA44

b)

Supramarginal Gyrus

c)

Hippocampus

d)

Occipital Lobe

5.

BA44 and the Supramarginal Gyrus are responsible for your what?

a)

Phonological Loop

b)

Visuo-spatial sketchpad

c)

Semantic Memory

d)

Non-declarative memory

6.

Keeping visuo-spatial information in mind involves sustaining activity in regions of the brain involved in _____.

a)

Object Perception

b)

Language Processing

c)

Mathemtical Reasoning

d)

Emotional Cognition

7.

Damage to which region causes problems in Visuo-Spatial STM?

a)

RIght Parieto-Occipital area

b)

Left Parieto-Occipital area

c)

BA44

d)

Supramarginal Gyrus

8.

Working Memory has two essential features:

a)

A capacity limited storage system

b)

A mechanism for refreshing and maintaining activity

c)

An unlimited storage capacity

d)

An emotional component that helps us remember

9.

What brain areas control Declaritive (Episodic and Semantic) memory?

a)

Medial Temporal Lobe

b)

Diencephalon

c)

Basal Ganglia

d)

Amygdala

e)

Cerebellum

10.

What brain areas control Procedural memory?

a)

Medial Temporal Lobe

b)

Diencephalon

c)

Basal Ganglia

d)

Amygdala

e)

Cerebellum

11.

What brain areas control Classical Conditioning?

a)

Medial Temporal Lobe

b)

Diencephalon

c)

Basal Ganglia

d)

Amygdala

e)

Cerebellum

12.

What brain areas control Priming?

a)

Medial Temporal Lobe

b)

Neocortex

c)

Basal Ganglia

d)

Amygdala

e)

Cerebellum

13.

The Hippocampus forms part of which brain area?

a)

Medial Temporal Lobe

b)

Neocortex

c)

Basal Ganglia

d)

Amygdala

e)

Cerebellum

14.

Long Term Memory is a _____ process.

a)

Constructive

b)

Infallible

c)

Reliable

d)

Judgmental

15.

We remember past events perfectly.

a)

False

b)

True

c)

Gravy Jones

16.

Patterson's Hub-and-Spoke Model explains what?

a)

Semantic Memory

b)

Short-Term Memory

c)

Working Memory

d)

Episodic Memory

17.

In Patterson's Hub-and-Spoke Model, where is the Hub located?

a)

Anterior Temporal Lobe

b)

Parietal Lobe

c)

Supramarginal Gyrus

d)

Occipital Lobe

18.

What memory functions are NOT harmed in Amnesia?

a)

Short-term memory

b)

Procedural memory

c)

Perceptual memory

d)

Classical conditioning

19.

Priming forms part of your...

a)

Short-term memory

b)

Procedural memory

c)

Perceptual memory

d)

Classical conditioning

20.

Habits and skills form part of your...

a)

Short-term memory

b)

Procedural memory

c)

Perceptual memory

d)

Classical conditioning

21.

What does Ribot's Law state?

a)

Retrograde amnesia impairs older memories more than recent ones

b)

Retrograde amnesia impairs recent memories more than older ones

c)

Cells that fire together, wire together

d)

People wrongly overestimate their knowledge or ability

22.

Ribot's Law states that patients with Amnesia will remember older memories better than more recent ones. What is an explination for this?

a)

Older memories get rehersed more often

b)

Older memories are more meaningful and emotionally charged

c)

Older memories are more succeptible to change

d)

Recent memories are insignificant and easily forgettable

23.

The older a memory is, the less dependent it is on the _____.

a)

Hippocampus

b)

Amygdala

c)

Neocortex

d)

Basal Ganglia

24.

What is the Standard Theory for Memory Consolidation?

a)

The hippocampus initially binds together different aspects of memory. Over time these memories form part of a cortico-cortical network independent of the hippocampus

b)

Old memories still depend on the hippocampus but are more resistant to disruption because they have had more opportunity to be reactivated than new memories

25.

What is the Multiple Trace Theory for Memory Consolidation?

a)

The hippocampus initially binds together different aspects of memory. Over time these memories form part of a cortico-cortical network independent of the hippocampus

b)

Old memories still depend on the hippocampus but are more resistant to disruption because they have had more opportunity to be reactivated than new memories

26.

Which theory of Memory Consolidation suggest that older memories have more nodes in the hippocampus, and so the hippocampus needs to be more damaged for old memories to be destroyed?

a)

Standard Theory of Memory Consolidation

b)

Multiple Trace Theory

27.

Which theory of Memory Consolidation suggests that older memories become part of a cortico-cortical network, independent of the Hippocampus?

a)

Standard Theory of Memory Consolidation

b)

Multiple Trace Theory

28.

What is the difference between Recall and Familiarity?

a)

Recall is a memory with context

b)

Familiarity is a memory without context

c)

Recall is a memory without context

d)

Familiarity is a memory with context

29.

"Know" responses are associated with A. _____, while "Remember" respones are associated with B. _____.

a)

A.) Familiarity

b)

B.) Recall

c)

A.) Recall

d)

B.) Familiarity

30.

"Know" memories, in which something is familiar but without context, activate which brain areas?

a)

Perirhinal Cortex

b)

Right Dorsolateral Frontal Region

c)

Hippocampus

d)

Left Anterior Fronal Region

31.

"Remember" memories, in which something is familiar and so its context, activate which brain areas?

a)

Perirhinal Cortex

b)

Right Dorsolateral Frontal Region

c)

Hippocampus

d)

Left Anterior Fronal Region

32.

You see a man on the bus and say "I know him from somewhere". He is your butcher, but you cannot recall this without the context of the butcher shop.

What brain area is active when seeing the butcher on the bus?

a)

Perirhinal Cortex

b)

Parahippocampal Area

c)

Hippocampus

33.

Perihinal Cortex and Right Dorsolateral Frontal Region are active during...

a)

"know" respones (familiarity)

b)

"remember" responses (recall)

34.

Hippocampus and Left Anterior Fronal Region are active during...

a)

"know" respones (familiarity)

b)

"remember" responses (recall)

35.

In Eichenbaum's Model, what is the role of the Perirhinal Cortex?

a)

It binds items to context

b)

It processes items

c)

It processes context

36.

In Eichenbaum's Model, what is the role of the Parahippocampal Cortex?

a)

It binds items to context

b)

It processes items

c)

It processes context

37.

In Eichenbaum's Model, what is the role of the Hippocampus?

a)

It binds items to context

b)

It processes items

c)

It processes context

38.

In Eichenbaum's Model, what brain area is responsible for processing items?

a)

Parahippocampal Cortex

b)

Perirhinal Cortex

c)

Hippocampus

39.

In Eichenbaum's Model, what brain area is responsible for processing context?

a)

Parahippocampal Cortex

b)

Perirhinal Cortex

c)

Hippocampus

40.

In Eichenbaum's Model, what brain area is responsible for binding items to context?

a)

Parahippocampal Cortex

b)

Perirhinal Cortex

c)

Hippocampus

41.

According to Levels-of-Processing Theory, which information is more likely to be remembered?

a)

Information processed at a Semantic Level

b)

Information processed at a Perceptual Level

42.

Which theory suggests the hippocampus stores permenent spatial maps of the environment?

a)

Cognitive Map Theory

b)

Multiple Trace Theory

c)

Standard Theory

d)

Eichenbaum's Model

43.

According to Cognitive Map Theory, our hippocampus can code maps of our enviornment in _____ space.

a)

Allocentric Space

b)

Egocentric Space

44.

According to Cognitive Map Theory, our hippocampus contains A. _____ that can B. _____

a)

A.) Place Cells

b)

B.) Code spatial maps of our environment

c)

A.) Location Cells

d)

B.) Scan our proprioceptive space

45.

According to Cognitive Map Theory, where are Place Cells found in humans?

a)

Right Hippocampus

b)

Hippocampus

c)

Supramarginal Gyrus

d)

Inferior Temporal Lobe

46.

According to Cognitive Map Theory, many _____ could together function as a map.

a)

Place Cells

b)

Astrocytes

c)

Hippocampi

d)

Limbic Regions

47.

According to Cognitive Map Theory, what is true about human spatial processing?

a)

Thinking about a location activates similar regions to being in that location

b)

Human spatial processing takes place in the right hippocampus

c)

Humans with left hippocampal lesions could not remember the layout of a virtual town

d)

Human spatial processing takes place in the neocortex

48.

London cab drivers are known to have enlarged right hippocampus.

Did they choose their job because of their great spatial memory or get better spatial memory because of their job?

a)

They improved their spatial memory because of their job

b)

They choose their job because of their great spatial memory

49.

When it comes to creating spatial maps, the hippocampus is responsible for A. _____ while the Parietal lobes are responsible for B. _____.

a)

A.) Egocentric space

b)

A.) Allocentric space

c)

B.) Egocentric space

d)

B.) Allocentric space

50.

During the Piazzo Del Duomo experiment, in which Milanese participants were asked to picture themselves standing in the Piazza, what brain region did what?

a)

The hippocampus accesed the map of the piazza, the frontal lobe superimposed the point of view on the map

b)

The hippocampus accesed the map of the piazza, the parietal lobe superimposed the point of view on the map

c)

The parietal lobe accesed the map of the piazza, the frontal lobe superimposed the point of view on the map

d)

The parietal lobe accesed the map of the piazza, the hippocampus superimposed the point of view on the map

51.

What two parts of the Prefrontal Cortex are important in memory?

a)

Dorsolateral PFC

b)

Ventrolateral PFC

c)

Your mum's face

d)

Your mum's secret boyfriend's face

52.

The Dorsolateral PFC is active during A. _____, while the Ventrolateral PFC is active during B. _____.

a)

A.) Memory Encoding

b)

B.) Memory Retrival

c)

B.) Memory Encoding

d)

A.) Memory Retrival

53.

The A. _____ is active during memory retrival, while the B. _____ is active during memory encoding

a)

A.) Dorsolateral PFC

b)

B.) Ventrolateral PFC

c)

B.) Dorsolateral PFC

d)

A.) Ventrolateral PFC

54.

Ventrolateral PRFC has been linked to longterm memory encoding.

A. _____ may be important during verbal encoding, and the B. _____ may be important when pictures or faces are presented

a)

A.) Left VLPFC

b)

B.) Right VLPFC

c)

A.) Right VLPFC

d)

B.) Left VLPFC

55.

Ventrolateral PRFC has been linked to longterm memory encoding.

Left VLPFC may be important during A. _____ , and the Right VLPFC may be important during B. _____

a)

A.) Verbal Encoding

b)

B.) Picture or Face Encoding

c)

A.) Picture or Face Encoding

d)

B.) Verbal Encoding

56.

DLPFC (especially right hemisphere) is involved in evaluating what has been retrieved from long-term memory. This evaluation of memory retrieval is known as what?

a)

Monitoring

b)

Assessing

c)

Reacting

d)

Remembering

57.

During memory experiments, the Dorsolateral PFC was most active when participants were asked to remember what?

a)

Something they remembered very well

b)

Something they had totally forgotten

c)

Something they had just learned

d)

Something that was on the tip of their tongue

58.

What brain region is involved in source monitoring, in which retrieved memories are attributed to their original context (e.g., who said what, was it morning or evening, etc.)?

a)

Orbitofrontal PFC

b)

Ventromedial PFC

c)

Ventrolateral PFC

d)

Dorsolateral PFC

59.

Barry is trying to remember the capital of Croatia. The answer is on the tip of his tongue. What brain region is most active during this state?

a)

Orbitofrontal PFC

b)

Ventromedial PFC

c)

Ventrolateral PFC

d)

Dorsolateral PFC

60.

Some patients with lesions in the _____ have problems in temporal source monitoring, but not spatial source monitoring

a)

Orbitofrontal cortex

b)

Ventromedial cortex

c)

Ventrolateral cortex

d)

Dorsolateral cortex

61.

Lesions in which brain areas may cause patients to Confabulate?

a)

Orbitofrontal cortex

b)

Ventromedial cortex

c)

Ventrolateral cortex

d)

Dorsolateral cortex

62.

A patient who knows where something happened but can't remember when something happened likely has damage to which brain area?

a)

Orbitofrontal cortex

b)

Ventromedial cortex

c)

Ventrolateral cortex

d)

Dorsolateral cortex

63.

The process by which retrieved memories are attributed to their original context is known as what?

a)

Source monitoring

b)

Confabulation

c)

Spatial Mapping

d)

Allocentric

64.

A memory that is false and sometimes self-contradictory without an intention to lie is known as a what?

a)

Confabulation

b)

Resumination

c)

Burgination

d)

Memoriflation