Neuro Practice Quiz

What factors could positively contribute to a consistent environmental map of a new town you’re exploring?

a simple, easily predictable town layout

Jimothy suffers a brain injury, and struggles to find meaning in life because he can’t create goals for himself, nor make himself a plan to achieve his goals. What kind of attentional map did he lose?

Priority maps

Jimothy goes to a nightclub and gets plastered while singing ABBA karaoke. A week later he goes on a week-long bender to the same club where Dancing Queen is stuck in his head and finds that he memorizes all the lyrics, even though he only listens to the Tate Brothers podcast religiously. What are processes at play to explain Jimothy’s sudden knowledge of ABBA lyrics?

State dependant learning, encoding specificity principle

What’s the difference between retrograde amnesia and anterograde amnesia?

Retro: inability to retrieve info from before incident; Antero: inability to form new memories following incident

What are the four modalities of the working memory?

central executive, phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, episodic buffer

If someone had a lesion in their entorhinal cortex, what are two things they would have trouble doing?

unable to measure mental distances, unable to turn STM into LTM

Which are mental gymnastics that would be expected in an orientation task?

Mental rotation

What reason would best explain a significant performance improvement when people use “lucky items” on a big performance such as a lucky test-taking pencil, that they use in class everyday?

encoding specificity principle

What kind of law can explain how some of the best football players in the world are often ballet dancers?

Thorndikes Law of Shared Elements

Why does repression of traumatic memories occur most frequently in young toddlers?

They haven’t developed structures involved in memory encoding