Deck 7: Disorders of Memory

Question 1

Organic amnesias include

A) Korsakoff's disease
B) HSE amnesia
C) amnesia resulting from temporal lobe surgery
D) all of the above (i.e. a + b + c)

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Squire et al. (1992) argue that organic amnesia is mainly a disorder of

A) implicit memory
B) semantic memory
C) non-declarative memory
D) declarative memory

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Damage to the temporal lobe cortex is associated with

A) impaired encoding
B) impaired retrieval
C) impaired face recognition
D) impaired implicit memory

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The 'standard model of consolidation' (Squire 1992) suggests that

A) full consolidation takes about 10 seconds to complete
B) full consolidation takes about 5 minutes to complete
C) full consolidation takes about 3 years to complete
D) full consolidation takes about 30 years to complete

Question 5

Steinvorth et al. (2005) found that amnesic HM exhibited

A) episodic retrograde amnesia extending back over his lifetime
B) semantic retrograde amnesia extending back over his lifetime
C) no episodic retrograde amnesia
D) no semantic retrograde amnesia

Question 6

Confabulation is mainly associated with lesions of

A) the parietal lobes
B) the frontal lobes
C) the temporal lobes
D) the occipital lobes

Question 7

Effective rehabilitation techniques for amnesia include

A) errorless learning
B) Neuropage
C) Sensecam
D) all of the above (i.e. a + b + c)

Question 8

List and define different forms of Organic Amnesia.

Question 9

What are the main characteristics of Psychogenic Amnesia?

Question 10

What is Retrograde and Anterograde Amnesia?

Question 11

How can we explain the existence of the "temporal gradient" in retrograde amnesia? (list and define 2 theories that provide an explanation)

Question 12

Tulving et al. claim that their patient KC exhibited

A) episodic amnesia
B) semantic amnesia
C) implicit memory amnesia
D) procedural memory amnesia

Question 13

Studies suggest that most organic amnesics

A) have more severe retrograde than anterograde amnesia
B) have more severe anterograde than retrograde amnesia
C) usually do not suffer any retrograde amnesia
D) usually do not suffer any anterograde amnesia

Question 14

Organic amnesics usually show a severe impairment in

A) judging whether a face is familiar
B) carrying out motor skills
C) recalling events from the previous day
D) implicit memory responses to previously primed items

Question 15

Alzheimer's disease

A) is caused by alcohol abuse
B) is caused by drug abuse
C) is the main form of senile dementia
D) is only found in very old people

Question 16

Korsakoff's disease

A) is caused by alcohol abuse
B) is caused by drug abuse
C) has a psychogenic cause
D) is caused by a virus infection

Question 17

Organic amnesias mainly cause impairment of

A) short-term memory
B) long-term memory
C) both long-term and short-term memory
D) neither long-term nor short-term memory

Question 18

An impairment of memory for the time preceding the onset of amnesia is called

A) focal amnesia
B) semantic amnesia
C) anterograde amnesia
D) retrograde amnesia

Question 19

An impairment of memory for the time subsequent to the onset of amnesia is called

A) episodic amnesia
B) semantic amnesia
C) anterograde amnesia
D) retrograde amnesia

Question 20

According to 'Ribot's law', organic amnesia tends to be more severe for

A) memories for an event from early in life
B) memories for recent events
C) memories for facts and general knowledge
D) the recognition of familiar faces

Question 21

Patients with focal anterograde amnesia suffer from

A) both anterograde and retrograde amnesia
B) neither anterograde nor retrograde amnesia
C) anterograde amnesia in the absence of retrograde amnesia
D) retrograde amnesia in the absence of anterograde amnesia

Question 22

Korsakoff patients with extensive frontal lobe lesions are more likely to exhibit

A) increased retrograde amnesia
B) increased anterograde amnesia
C) increased anterograde and retrograde amnesia
D) no amnesia

Question 23

The extended hippocampal system includes

A) hippocampus and frontal lobes
B) hippocampus and parietal lobes
C) hippocampus and occipital lobes
D) hippocampus and anterior thalamic nuclei

Question 24

Organic amnesics are usually unimpaired in

A) performance of procedural skills
B) episodic memory
C) recent memory
D) autobiographical memory

Question 25

List the brain areas associated with the different forms of organic amnesia. What type of memory is affected in each case? (make sure to also include the direction of amnesia)