QUIZ on MEMORY

UNR Freshman Medical Neuroscience 603

If  you can answer these 6 questions, you'll do just fine on the related portion of the Neurophysiology final exam. FOR ALL QUESTIONS, PLEASE PICK THE SINGLE BEST ANSWER

1. The two major functional categories of memory are:

A. semantic and implicit

B. declarative and procedural

C. declarative and explicit

D. episodic and semantic

2. The two subcategories of declarative memory are:  

A. semantic and implicit

B. declarative and procedural

C. declarative and explicit

D. episodic and semantic

3. Three conceptual categories of memory, based on time course, are:  

A. Engram, short-term, long-term

B. Transient, working, long-term

C. Long-term, short-term, immediate

4. TRUE or FALSE:   Memory in animals can best be understood through analogy to modern computer data storage.

5. TRUE or FALSE:   Forgetting is usually a pathological process.

6. TRUE or FALSE:   Short-term memory is often characterized as holding “7-plus-or-minus-2 chunks” of information for a period of seconds to minutes.

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Please E-mail me with suggestions to improve this tutorial -Phil
		goodman @ unr.edu

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