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Biopsychology Chapter 12 The Biology of Learning and Memory Part 2
This deck covers key concepts from Chapter 12 of Biopsychology, focusing on the biology of learning and memory, including types of memory, amnesia, and the role of the hippocampus.
The delayed response task requires responding to something that you saw or heard ____.
a short while ago
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Definition
The delayed response task requires responding to something that you saw or heard ____.
a short while ago
Compared to young adults, aging humans with poor working memory have ____ activity in the prefrontal cortex and aging humans with intact working memory have ____ activity in the prefrontal cortex.
decreased; increased
Studies on ____ help clarify the distinctions among different kinds of memory and enable us to explore the mechanisms of memory.
amnesia
The patient H.M. suffered severe memory disorders following a surgical operation that removed the ____.
hippocampus
Retrograde amnesia is to ____ as anterograde amnesia is to ____.
loss of memory for old events; inability to form new memories
The inability to form memories for events that happened after brain damage is a characteristic of ____ amnesia.
anterograde
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
The delayed response task requires responding to something that you saw or heard ____. | a short while ago |
Compared to young adults, aging humans with poor working memory have ____ activity in the prefrontal cortex and aging humans with intact working memory have ____ activity in the prefrontal cortex. | decreased; increased |
Studies on ____ help clarify the distinctions among different kinds of memory and enable us to explore the mechanisms of memory. | amnesia |
The patient H.M. suffered severe memory disorders following a surgical operation that removed the ____. | hippocampus |
Retrograde amnesia is to ____ as anterograde amnesia is to ____. | loss of memory for old events; inability to form new memories |
The inability to form memories for events that happened after brain damage is a characteristic of ____ amnesia. | anterograde |
Forgetting events prior to the time of brain damage is a characteristic of ____ amnesia. | retrograde |
After his surgery, H.M. had the most difficulty with ____. | being able to define new English words |
H.M. was able to learn and remember ____. | skills like mazes and puzzles |
Deliberate recall of information that one recognizes as a memory is termed ____. | explicit memory |
____ is an influence of recent experience on behavior, even if one does not recognize that influence. | Implicit memory |
The memory for the development of motor skills is termed ____. | Procedural memory |
Which type of memory is MOST impaired by damage to the hippocampus? | episodic memory |
Which of the following accurately describes H.M.'s memory problems? | impaired explicit memory, but not implicit memory |
One ironic but interesting finding is that people with amnesia will improve on ____ tasks, but have no ____ memory with respect to the task. | procedural; explicit |
Procedural memory is to ____ as declarative memory is to ____. | juggling; explaining the sequence of moves in juggling |
Damage to the ____ impairs performance on the delayed matching-to-sample and delayed nonmatching-to-sample tasks. | hippocampus |
Hippocampal damage has the greatest effect on ____. | the delayed match-to-sample task when the two objects are continuously changed |
What area of the brain is particularly important for coding spatial information? | hippocampus |
A study with London taxi drivers found that answering ____ activated their hippocampus more than answering ____. | spatial questions; nonspatial questions |
A rat is placed in a radial maze in which it has already been trained for many trials. As compared to rats without damage to their hippocampus, rats with damage are more likely to ____. | enter one of the correct alleys repeatedly |
A rat must swim through murky water to find a rest platform that is just under the surface in the ____. | Morris water maze |
A rat with hippocampal damage has difficulty with the Morris water maze because it ____. | has difficulty remembering where the platform is from trial to trial |
There is compelling evidence for the role of the hippocampus in ____ memory. | spatial |
Researchers have found that different species of birds differ in terms of how much they depend on food they have stored to get through the winter. What factor is related to depending on and finding stored food? | relative size of the hippocampus |