Exam 7: Learning and Remembering

A) Short-term memory is sensitive to disruption, while long-term memory is more resistant to disruption
B) Short-term memory is relatively insensitive to disruption, while long-term memory is sensitive to disruption
C) Short-term memory lasts from days to weeks, while long-term memory lasts from seconds to hours
D) Short-term memory processes are largely localized to the sensory cortex, while long-term memory processes are distributed throughout the neocortex

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Learning -- memory encoding -- works bes...

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A) Voluntary and unconscious processes
B) Learning and retrieval
C) Short term and long term
D) Visual and verbal components

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A) Explicit
B) Implicit
C) Short term
D) Working

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A) Episodic memories can be remembered with an active reconstruction of the actual recalled event, while semantic memories typically involve a 'feeling of knowing' rather than a fully conscious recollection of an event
B) Episodic memories are less susceptible to forgetting than semantic memories
C) Episodic memories typically involve a 'feeling of knowing' rather than a fully conscious recollection of an event, while semantic memories can be remembered with an active reconstruction of the actual recalled event
D) Episodic memories are relatively independent of context, while semantic memories are context-dependent

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A) Confirming the accuracy of a remembered event
B) Forgetting a memory in old age
C) Transforming information from temporary to permanent storage
D) Merging memories together

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A) His inability to form new memories
B) His inability to recall events shortly before his surgery
C) His relatively intact short term memory
D) His ability to recall experiences from his childhood

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Types of non-declarative memory include skills, habituation, priming, implicit or unconscious goals and learning. Everyday examples of skill memory are driving a car, keyboarding on a laptop, and reading a sentence which also involves conscious memory processes). Other everyday examples include having a song just 'come to mind' when actually it was primed or cued by the name of the band on a website you just looked at.

A) Neocortex, medial temporal lobe
B) Medial temporal lobe, hippocampus
C) Hippocampus, neocortex
D) Prefrontal cortex, hippocampus

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A) To be suffering from amnesia
B) To have difficulty in everyday conversations
C) To have impaired implicit thinking
D) All of the above

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