Brain Bee Chapter 11 - Jacey

Question 1

memories are central to our _____

Answer 1

individuality

Question 2

The brain has multiple _____ systems with different characteristics and mediated by different neuronal networks.

Answer 2

memory

Question 3

on what are memory formations thought to depend on?

Answer 3

synaptic plasticity

Question 4

what does “working-memory” hold?

Answer 4

information in your mind for a short period of time

Question 5

what is the larger, more passive storehouse of information called?

Answer 5

long-term memory

Question 6

name the processes of short-term working memory system of the brain:

Answer 6

Visuo-Spatial Sketch Pad, Central Executive System, Auditory Short Term Store

Question 7

true or false:

the brain has a system for holding on to and working with small amounts of information very accurately.

Answer 7

true

Question 8

what is central to this system?

Answer 8

fidelity

Question 9

name the system that controls the flow of information

Answer 9

central executive system

Question 10

There is a _________ store alongside a silent rehearsal loop - the bit of your brain that you use to say things to yourself

Answer 10

phonological

Question 11

the visual sketchpad can hold onto images long enough for you to…

Answer 11

manipulate in your mind’s eye

Question 12

where is working memory located?

Answer 12

frontal and parietal

lobes.

Question 13

true or false?
long-term memory is not sub-divided into different
systems located in widely dispersed networks of the brain.

Answer 13

false!

long-term memory is sub-divided into different systems

Question 14

skills are learned through which two types of practices?

Answer 14

deliberate and extensive.

Question 15

name two brain areas that are involved with conditioning:

Answer 15

cerebellum, basal ganglia

Question 16

name the last type of memory system in the brain.

Answer 16

episodic

Question 17

why does the episodic system must learn quickly?

Answer 17

because it has to.

Question 18

what condition(s) have helped neuroscientists learn about episodic memory?

Answer 18

stroke, brain tumours, viral infections (herpes encephalitis)

Question 19

who said the following?
“It is not so much the injury that captures our
attention as how, through injury or disease, normal
function is laid bare.”

Answer 19

Sir Henry Head

Question 20

which condition can make people forget certain things that happened recently?

Answer 20

amnesia

Question 21

true or false?

amnesics can see fine and copy complex drawings very accurately, but they cannot remember it for very long.

Answer 21

true.

Question 22

define retrogade amnesia.

Answer 22

patients cannot remember events that occurred before they became ill.

Question 23

which two structures are very important for episodic memory? name them and their abbreviations.

Answer 23

perirhinal cortex (PRH) 
hippocampus (HIPPO)

Question 24

name a type of Alzheimer’s disease.

Answer 24

semantic dementia

Question 25

what is an important discovery? (this has to do with cells)

Answer 25

place cells

Question 26

true or false?

studying neurological patients carefully helps us to discover where memory functions are in the brain,

Answer 26

true

Question 27

scientists believe that cognitive engineering will be need _________ drugs

Answer 27

alongside

Question 28

who developed the idea of a working memory?

Answer 28

Alan Baddeley