Human Memory Question Bank
Course Introduction
This course offers an in-depth exploration of the psychological and neurobiological processes underlying human memory. Students will examine different types of memory systems, such as sensory, short-term, working, and long-term memory, and how these systems interact to facilitate information encoding, storage, and retrieval. The course will cover influential theories, key experimental findings, and real-world applications, including memory disorders, eyewitness testimony, and strategies for improving memory performance. Emphasis will be placed on both classic and contemporary research, providing students with a comprehensive understanding of how memory shapes human experience and behavior.
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Learning and Memory 1St Edition Edition by Howard Eichenbaum
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Chapter 1: The Nature of Learning and Memory
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Q1) Learning how to drive a car is an example of:
A) perceptual learning.
B) emotional learning.
C) sensitization.
D) procedural learning.
Answer: D
Q2) Which if the following is NOT a major theme of this textbook?
A) Observations from many approaches have helped to explain learning and memory.
B) Neurobiological evidence has made a strong contribution to learning and memory.
C) The memory taxonomies apply to both animals and humans.
D) Research in the area of learning and memory can be correlational or experimental.
Answer: D
Q3) Frederic Bartlett's 1932 work on memory showed that:
A) memories are formed because of simple associations.
B) repetition of information can improve one's memory.
C) memory is not an elaborate network but a set of simple connected ideas.
D) prior knowledge influences what one remembers.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: The Neural Bases of Learning and Memory
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Q1) Which of the following would not be a function of the autonomic nervous system?
A) salivation
B) sweating
C) crying
D) respiration
Answer: C
Q2) What type of behaviors would be affected if the striatal subsystem was damaged?
A) simple motor tasks
B) simple sensory tasks
C) complex motor tasks
D) complex sensory tasks
Answer: C
Q3) If your dog rubs up against your left arm which specific brain area would process this information?
A) The left parietal lobe.
B) The left temporal lobe.
C) The right parietal lobe.
D) The right temporal lobe.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Simple Forms of Learning and Memory
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Q1) Studies have found that monkeys and rats spend _______ time looking at a novel stimulus as a familiar one.
A) the same amount
B) less
C) twice as much
D) five times as much
Answer: C
Q2) Why do researchers study invertebrates when trying to discover the mechanics of habituation?
A) They have more primitive nervous systems.
B) They are easier to house and control.
C) They have complex nervous systems.
D) They are closest to human nervous systems.
Answer: A
Q3) Habituation cannot be used reliably to investigate learning and memory.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Perceptual Learning and Memory
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Q1) Discuss the neurobiological basis of perceptual skill learning. Provide the research evidence that supports your answer.
Q2) In perceptual skill learning it is better if the person remembers the trained stimulus or the parameters of learning a skill.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Discuss the findings for the research question, "Are faces perceived categorically?"
Q4) Typically, perceptual learning is nonassociative.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In a series of experiments, it was found that participants had better priming for a set of words when they were:
A) presented alone.
B) read out loud within a sentence.
C) read out loud with no conscious processing.
D) read to themselves within a sentence.
Q6) Explain how perceptual skill training has been used to offset deficits in those with perceptual disorders.
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Chapter 5: Procedural Learning I: Classical Conditioning
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Q1) In Pavlov's experiment the food was the __________.
A) unconditioned stimulus
B) unconditioned reflex
C) conditioned stimulus
D) conditioned reflex
Q2) Psychic secretions occur ____________.
A) when food enters the stomach
B) after food enters the stomach
C) before the food reaches the stomach
D) when the food leaves the stomach
Q3) Damage to the hippocampus prevents delay conditioning from occurring properly.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Briefly describe the changes that occur within the presynaptic membrane during classical conditioning in the Aplysia during mantle stimulation.
Q5) Classical conditioning is a form of nonassociative learning.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Give two explanations for why spontaneous recovery occurs.
Q7) Discuss why response extinction is not the same as forgetting.
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Chapter 6: Procedural Learning II: Habits and Instrumental Learning
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Q1) Instrumental learning is another example of ____________ learning
A) trial and error
B) classical
C) associative
D) nonassociative
Q2) Denise's brother, Jack, wears unmatched socks when he plays basketball because the last time he did that his team won the game. He believes that this odd behavior was correlated with the win. This is an example of _________.
A) Law of Effect
B) classical conditioning
C) modeling
D) superstitious learning
Q3) As you watch your mother typing on the computer you notice that she does not look at the keys and she moves over the keyboard effortlessly. She is in what stage of motor skill learning?
A) cognitive stage
B) associative stage
C) autonomous stage
D) motor stage
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Chapter 7: Emotional Learning and Memory
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Q1) Which of the brain areas are not connected directly to the basolateral nucleus through a pathway originating in the amygdala?
A) thalamus
B) striatum
C) hypothalamus
D) hippocampus
Q2) Studies show that damage to the lateral amygdala results in _________.
A) impaired motor response following foot shock
B) impaired autonomic reactions
C) dramatically reduced reactions to an unconditioned stimulus
D) dramatically reduced reactions to a conditioned tone cue
Q3) After reading a list of nonsense words, subjects had a preference for those words that __________.
A) had more vowels than consonants
B) appeared more often in the list
C) had more consonants than vowels
D) were more novel
Q4) The cingulate cortex projects to the mamillary bodies.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Cognitive Memory
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Q1) If we lose the retrieval cues for a memory the result most likely would be
A) forgetting that memory
B) a distortion of that memory
C) enhanced memory for other items
D) enhanced memory for that item
Q2) David Olton's concept of working memory is most like Endel Tulving's _______ memory.
A) semantic
B) procedural
C) episodic
D) declarative
Q3) While watching a movie you hear a song from the 1980s that you should remember. When you are going through your memory thinking of the singer you are doing what active process?
A) encoding
B) elaboration
C) organization
D) retrieval
Q4) How do mnemonists develop their extensive memory skills?
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Chapter 9: Episodic Memory
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Q1) Between the ages of 20 and 30 there is a relatively high number of memories, called the __________.
A) infantile bump
B) middle age bump
C) reminiscence bump
D) recency bump
Q2) Discuss which kinds of memory show the most prominent declines as we age and why. Be specific in your answer.
Q3) During which of the following activities are hippocampal neurons activated?
A) foraging for food
B) classical conditioning
C) maze tasks
D) All of the above.
Q4) The ROC function of amnesic subjects was symmetrical, demonstrating a recognition deficiency.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why are eyewitness testimonies unreliable sources of information in a court of law?
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Chapter 10: Semantic Memory
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Q1) Jack has severe damage exclusively to the left anterior inferior temporal cortex. You would expect Jack to have problems with what specific task?
A) naming people
B) naming tools
C) naming animals
D) naming vehicles
Q2) The role of the hippocampus in learning declarative knowledge is to _________.
A) rapidly learn about individual experiences and then separate them
B) gradually extract commonalities of many experiences
C) gradually extract the novel experiences from the well-learned material
D) rapidly separate new memories from old memories and categorize them
Q3) Results of a transitive inference paradigm suggest that the hippocampus plays a role in _______.
A) connecting past memories with novel items
B) interpreting subtle memories for unique events
C) linking related memories according to their common features
D) linking unrelated items that share a common ground
Q4) Describe the two reference systems from which one could gain survey knowledge of one's environment.
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Chapter 11: Memory Consolidation
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Q1) Nader and colleagues found that a delayed infusion of protein into the amygdala after a fear conditioning task resulted in ________.
A) no impairment of fear conditioning
B) a drastic decrease in fear conditioning
C) a slight decrease in fear conditioning
D) confusion of the emotion to be displayed
Q2) Retrograde amnesia following medial temporal lobe damage often affects memory for personal episodes more severely than semantic memory.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Discuss why the interval between conditional learning and damage to the hippocampus is important for understanding memory. Discuss the research that supports this.
Q4) Protein is not essential for permanent memory fixation.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Consolidation is an active process that can either be enhanced or impaired.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Short-Term Memory and Working Memory
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Q1) According to the ________ information decreased rapidly after a three-second delay between training and recall.
A) serial processing curve
B) serial position curve
C) recency effect
D) forgetting curve
Q2) When you remember your nine-digit student number as three groups of three numbers you have ______ the items together.
A) compounded
B) chunked
C) stacked
D) compressed
Q3) If you have just covered Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4 in that order for a class, explain why you should spend more time studying Chapters 2 and 3 compared to Chapters 1 and 4. Be specific about the nature of your memory for each chapter.
Q4) Describe the components of working memory according to Baddeley (2000) and how they work together.
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