Behavioral Neuroscience Test Questions
Course Introduction
Behavioral Neuroscience explores the biological bases of behavior, focusing on how the brain and nervous system influence actions, emotions, and cognitive processes. This course covers fundamental topics such as neural communication, brain structure and function, sensory and motor systems, neuroplasticity, and the neural mechanisms underlying learning, memory, motivation, and emotion. Students will examine the interplay between genetics, neurophysiology, and the environment, and gain an understanding of methodologies used in contemporary research. Through case studies and experimental evidence, the course highlights the relevance of neuroscience in understanding psychological disorders and behavioral changes.
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Memory Foundations and Applications 3rd Edition by Bennett L. Schwartz
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Chapter 1: Introduction to the Study of Memory
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Q1) MEG uses a specific kind of sensor to detect small magnetic fields produced by electrical activity.What are these sensors?
A)radioactive
B)magnetic
C)structure
D)function
Answer: B
Q2) Metamemory is a judgment of memory.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Explain in what way metamemory effects our memory.
Answer: It affects our memory through knowledge and awareness of our own memory processes.
Q4) Explain the relationship between source judgments and reality monitoring.
Answer: Source judgments are specific. Reality monitoring distinguishes whether an event is real or imagined event.
Q5) Memory ______ are verbal models of how memory works.
Answer: metaphors
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Chapter 2: Memory and the Brain
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Q1) What instrument would a researcher use to get a detailed image of a living human brain without causing any damage to living tissue?
A)PET
B)tdCS
C)TMs
D)MRI
Answer: A
Q2) An inability to retrieve memories of events prior to brain damage is called:
A)amnesia.
B)retrograde amnesia.
C)structural amnesia.
D)function three amnesia.
Answer: B
Q3) Sudden and devastating injuries to the brain are called ______ brain injuries.
Answer: traumatic
Q4) What is mean by the term engram and what did Lashley hope to achieve by identifying it?
Answer: Hypothetical physical unit of memory storage.
Q5) Explain the role of the neurotansmitters in neural circuits.
Answer: inhibit and excite.
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Chapter 3: Working Memory
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Q1) Angie is a participant in an experiment on the serial position curve.One of the words on the list she hears is "lemon." Later, when asked to recall the list, she erroneously reports "lime." The word "lemon" was most likely:
A)the very last word on the list.
B)written in bold letters, causing her to experience a Von Restorff effect.
C)one of the first three items of the list.
D)the only word from the category "fruit" on the list.
Answer: C
Q2) ______ memory is auditory sensory memory.
Answer: Iconic
Q3) Describe the working memory system of the phonological loop.
Answer: Auditory, rehearsal, short-term memory to long-term memory, and limited-capacity system that holds auditory information for brief periods.
Q4) The term used for processing the meaning of information in working memory is:
A)maintenance rehearsal.
B)elaborative rehearsal.
C)learning.
D)iconic rehearsal.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Episodic Memory
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Q1) Encoding specificity means that deeper processing leads to stronger memory representations.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Future memory for things needing accomplished is called ______ memory.
Q3) The concept of accessibility implies that:
A)everything we ever perceive is stored in memory.
B)retrieval cues are necessary to unlock some memories.
C)in some cases, retrieval should occur before encoding.
D)the limbic system is involved in episodic memory.
Q4) Explain the relationship between episodic memory and semantic memory.
Q5) Moods are best remembered when we study them under levels of mood congruence.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Retrieval will activate information already stored in long-term memory.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Levels of processing assume that most learning is ______, not intentional.
Q8) Explain memory dissociation as it relates to brain damage.
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Chapter 5: Semantic Memory
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Q1) Family resemblance means that:
A)membership in a category is defined by items' similarity to other members of the category.
B)membership in a category is defined by common ancestry of the concept.
C)membership in a category is defined by each item's ability to activate superordinate structures.
D)membership in a category is defined by the joining of perceptual and semantic characteristics.
Q2) In a sentence verification task, participants decide as quickly as possible:
A)if a sentence is true or false.
B)if they have seen the sentence before.
C)if they can retrieve the sentence later.
D)if they can pronounce the sentence in less than five seconds.
Q3) Superordinate information in categorization is more based on neural processes in the ______ lobe.
Q4) If a person sees a string of letters like "Xvvsvo," the person should:
A)respond "yes" as quickly as possible in a lexical decision task.
B)tell the experimenter something is wrong with the lexical decision task.
C)respond "yes" only after careful consideration in a lexical decision task.
D)respond "no" as quickly as possible in a lexical decision task.
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Chapter 6: Visual Memory
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Q1) Kosslyn (1975) asked people to make visual images such as a rabbit next to an elephant.He showed that:
A)people could not make the side-by-side comparisons.
B)visual imagery alone was insufficient for the task.
C)participants were slower when an auditory distraction was also present.
D)speeded judgments of the characteristics of images were affected by the size of the imagined object.
Q2) Explain the term "cognitive maps" as they relate to spatial representation.
Q3) The ______ (abbreviation) is an area of the occipital lobe that has been identified as crucial to face recognition.
Q4) Sequential line-ups are also known as:
A)simultaneous line-ups.
B)ID blocks.
C)recognition units.
D)show-ups.
Q5) Studies show that:
A)eidetic imagery is a practiced skill.
B)eidetic imagery bears no relationship to "photographic memory."
C)eidetic imagery is responsible for visual learning in all people.
D)eidetic imagery is more common in young children than adults.
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Chapter 7: Autobiographical Memory
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Q1) An example of an "______" event in Conway's theory was the memory of the horse-back riding trip you took in the hills of Pennsylvania.
Q2) Which is an example of an "extended" event in Conway's theory?
A)a combined memory of many trips to the grocery store
B)the memory of the specific instant when the check-out person at the grocery store dropped a large bag of rice on your toes
C)the memory of your life when you worked at a ranch in Utah
D)the memory of the horse-back riding trip you took in the hills of Utah
Q3) Childhood amnesia refers to the poor memory of children for semantic knowledge. A)True
B)False
Q4) When adults do remember events from before the age of four, those memories tend to be of big events, usually later rehearsed, such as the birth of a sibling.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain correspondence in memory of events.
Q6) Explain "flashbulb" memories.
Q7) Explain the process of coherence.
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Chapter 8: False Memory
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Q1) The ______ hypothesis is a theory that explains the misinformation effect.
Q2) Explain the "Fuzzy-Trace" theory.
Q3) Describe critical intrusion.
Q4) Wade, Green, and Nash (2010) showed that after having viewed fabricated videotapes:
A)participants were more likely to sign documents claiming they had witnessed a behavior (cheating) that they actually did not see
B)participants were less likely to sign documents claiming they had witnessed a behavior (cheating) that they actually did not see
C)participants were less likely to alert authorities that they had witnessed a behavior (cheating) that they actually did not see.
D)participants were more likely to ask for high-calorie foods than participants who had not seen fabricated videotapes.
Q5) Retrieval Active suppression means that:
A)people fail to rehearse painful items.
B)people may deliberately force themselves to not remember the item.
C)hypnotic suggestions are used to induce false memories.
D)the false memory induction procedure will be unable to work.
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Chapter 9: Metamemory
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Q1) The tip-of-the-pen phenomenon refers to:
A)when tip-of-the-tongue states occur in sign language.
B)when Chinese writers know how to say a word, but do not know how to write the character.
C)when Japanese speakers cannot say a word that emanates from a foreign language.
D)when deaf individuals cannot remember the English word that means the same thing as a sign in American Sign Language.
Q2) Roscoe is appearing on a game show.If he remembers and answers a question right, he will win a large sum of money.Roscoe should employ metacognition strategies on answer he is unsure of by eliminating the incorrect answers that he knows are incorrect.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Retrospective confidence refers to:
A)the confidence one has in the accuracy of one's JOLs.
B)the confidence that a retrieved answer is the correct answer.
C)the confidence that feeling of knowing is based on accurate assessments.
D)the confidence that allocation of study time has been successful.
Q4) Describe the difference between memory and metamemory.
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Chapter 10: Memory Disorders
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Q1) In implicit memory tasks, patients with ______ syndrome show normal repetition priming in word fragment completion.
Q2) Elaborate on Dissociative Fugue.
Q3) Korsakoff's disease is linked with which other disease?
A)heart disease
B)clinical depression
C)alcoholism
D)temporal-lobe epilepsy
Q4) The papillary mass area of the brain is associated with anterograde amnesia.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the relationship of Frontal syndrome to amnesia.
Q6) The most salient symptom of transient global amnesia is strong ______ amnesia.
Q7) Unlike H.M., Clive Wearing showed severe symptoms of Capgrass syndrome. A)True
B)False
Q8) Explain the term Psychogenic amnesia.
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Q9) Amnesia refers to the inability to retrieve new memories following brain damage. A)True
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Chapter 11: Memory in Childhood
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Q1) Rosalia is a 4-year-old child.She watches a stuffed animal get placed in a McDonald's hamburger bag.Rosalia will:
A)think that everyone knows the stuffed animal is in the bag.
B)refuse to eat from the bag.
C)immediately forget that the animal was placed in the bag.
D)make a judgment of learning.
Q2) In a false belief test,
A)young children will mistake cognition for metacognition.
B)young children will employ memory strategies when they should rely on memory efficiency.
C)infants replace actual objects with imagined objects.
D)young children do not recognize that others do not know what they know.
Q3) With respect to ______ control, second-graders are likely to spend more time studying items that they gave low JOLs to.
Q4) In one study, it was found that 4-month-old children looked ______ at upright photos of faces than upside-down photos of faces.
Q5) Describe the false-belief test.
Q6) Describe semantic memory in children.
Q7) Explain Wimmer and Perner's (1983) experiment on false belief.
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Chapter 12: Memory in Older Adults
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Q1) What is semantic memory?
Q2) Which of the following statements about brain changes in older adults is true?
A)There are no visible differences between the brains of older and younger adults.
B)Declines in the size of the pre-frontal lobe are associated with declines in memory performance in older adults.
C)Brains continue to grow throughout the lifespan.
D)Declines in the size of the occipital lobe are associated with declines in memory performance in older adults.
Q3) Research on multi-tasking and memory supports the contention that all adults show lower memory performance while multi-tasking, but it is especially acute in younger adults.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In directed forgetting studies, older adults have a harder time blocking out the to-be-forgotten items, leading to better recall of to-be-forgotten items.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are white matter tracts?
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Chapter 13: Memory Improvement and Learning Efficiency
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Q1) Judgments of learning improve memory by:
A)making a JOL superior in memory improvement to retrieval practice.
B)alerting us to those items that need further study.
C)providing the appropriate retrieval cues.
D)accurately predicting future test performance.
Q2) Describe encoding specificity.
Q3) Explain distributed learning or practice.
Q4) Distracted attention, as in texting during class, results in In the Stroop effect,
A)an inability to employ retrieval practice.
B)a failure to appreciate stability bias.
C)a difficulty to focus on meaning, reducing learning efficiency
D)multi-tasking overload syndrome.
Q5) Research on the ______ effect shows that participants remember the generated associations better than the read associations.
Q6) One truism of memory improvement is there is no magic bullet-memory improvement requires work.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Describe synesthesia.
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