MEMORY QUIZ ANSWERS

ANSWER 1: B  The two major functional categories of memory are declarative (explicit) and procedural (implicit).

ANSWER 2: D  The two subcategories of declarative memory are episodic (experiences) and semantic (factual).

ANSWER 3: C  Three conceptual categories of memory, based on time course, are immediate (seconds), short-term (seconds to minutes) and long-term (engram).

ANSWER 4: FALSE  Biological memory is not like computer memory, where the actual letters, numbers, or sounds are directly represented by binary coding on the hard drive or CD-ROM. In animals, synaptic changes control the dynamics of the electrical activity passing back and forth among excitatory and inhibitory neurons.

ANSWER 5: FALSE  Most of the incoming environmental information and resultant thought content are (fortunately) not retained beyond immediate or working memory.

ANSWER 6: TRUE Click here for review pdf.

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