Review Questions

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1		Three specific questions have developed into ways to categorize the study of memory systems. What are these three questions?



2		What is the difference between semantic and episodic memory? Explicit and implicit? Declarative and procedural? What are the categorizations based on capacity or duration?



3		What are the component processes of memory?



4		What caused H.M.'s impairment? What type of amnesia does he have? (Conceptualization task: Imagine meeting H.M; what kind of behaviors would he exhibit?)



5		What is the importance of the medial temporal cortex in memory? What structures are most important (as noted by cases and research)?



6		What is diencephalic amnesia? What are the symptoms? How is it caused?



7		How does diencephalic amnesia differ from the medial temporal amnesia of H.M.?



8		What brain structures are related to which processes of the memory system?



9		What types of behaviors and learning are not affected by amnesia?



10		How does amnesia affect episodic memory? Semantic memory?



11		What is the importance of short-term memory? How does an impairment in short-term memory manifest itself in an individual's behavior? What brain area is implicated in working memory?



12		How is long-term memory represented in the brain? How has it been studied? Is long-term memory localized in the human brain?

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