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Test Bank For Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain, Enhanced
Edition 4th Edition By Mark Bear; Barry Connors; Michael A.
Paradiso 9781284211283 All Chapters .
Anterograde amnesia is an inability to ______.
a. remember early experiences
b. remember events from the middle of life
c. remember events prior to the impairment
d. form new memories - ANSWER: D

Retrograde amnesia is an inability to ______.
a. remember daily experiences
b. remember events from the middle of life
c. remember events prior to the impairment
d. form new memories - ANSWER: C

Consolidation of memory refers to ______.
a. formation of permanent memories
b. accessing stored memories
c. filtering of sensory information in order to make memories
d. integration of different memories into one - ANSWER: A

Retrieval with respect to memory refers to ______.
a. formation of permanent memories
b. accessing stored memories
c. filtering of sensory information in order to make memories
d. integration of different memories into one - ANSWER: B

Animals given a drug that blocks the neurotransmitter ______ were not able to remember the
location of a hidden platform in the water memory task.
a. acetylcholine
b. glutamate
c. serotonin
d. dopamine - ANSWER: B

The water maze experiment for memory showed that ______.
a. blocking glutamate receptors interferes with memory
b. increasing glutamate receptors interferes with memory
c. blocking glutamate receptors increases memory
d. increasing glutamate receptors increases memory - ANSWER: A

How well a list of words is remembered could be predicted from the extent ______ during stimulus
presentation.
a. of the evoked responses in the cingulate cortex
b. of activation that occurred in the hippocampus
c. of activation that occurred in the septum
d. of the evoked responses in the hypothalamus - ANSWER: B

Shondra is reading her textbook and trying to memorize specific passages. Most likely, the greatest
neural activity is in her ______.
a. entire hippocampal formation
b. hippocampus
c. cingulate cortex
d. CA1 - ANSWER: B

, If glutamate-blocking drugs are given after learning a water maze, rats ______.
a. show equal levels of performance but do not remember being in the maze before
b. actually swim the maze faster
c. show a detriment in retrieval
d. are no different from control groups - ANSWER: C

Which memory system provides a temporary "register" for information while it is being used?
a. Working memory
b. Utility memory
c. Sample memory
d. Long term memory - ANSWER: A

The longest-lasting memories are located mostly in ______.
a. the right hippocampus
b. the left hippocampus
c. integration between left and right hippocampus areas
d. cortical areas other than the hippocampus - ANSWER: D

The reason that hippocampus damage can interfere with forming new memories and yet not alter
childhood memories is ______.
a. long-term memories are stronger and more difficult to disrupt
b. these types of memories are related to two different neurotransmitters within the hippocampus
c. these types of memories are located in different areas of the brain
d. none of these - ANSWER: C

Despite his amnesia, H.M. demonstrated that he still had ______.
a. declarative memory
b. nondeclarative memory
c. episodic memory
d. semantic memory - ANSWER: B

Your grandmother unfortunately had a stroke over the weekend. You take her to the doctor, and the
doctor says to expect some declarative memory loss. What will your grandmother have problems
with?
a. movement memory
b. memory for facts
c. skills memory
d. motor memory - ANSWER: B

Remembering what dopamine does in the brain is an example of ______.
a. declarative memory
b. nondeclarative memory
c. short-term memory
d. dendritic memory - ANSWER: A

Your grandmother unfortunately had a stroke over the weekend. You take her to the doctor, and the
doctor says that despite some memory loss, her nondeclarative memory will be fine. With what form
of memory will your grandmother likely NOT have any deficits?
a. picture memory
b. memory for facts
c. memory for skills
d. memory for events - ANSWER: C

Remembering how to get to class every day, although you cannot state the room number or the name
of the building, is an example of ______.
a. declarative memory

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