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The many stores of memory

Science · The Human Body · ages 21-22
Name ______________________   Date ____________

  1. Which of these is a non-declarative memory?

    • The capital of France
    • What you did last summer
    • How to ride a bike

  2. Which of these is a declarative memory?

    • How to ride a bike
    • What you ate for breakfast
    • How to tie your shoes

  3. The hippocampus is needed to keep an old memory forever.

    Circle one:   True   False

  4. What is consolidation?

    • The instant flash of sensing something
    • The slow settling of a memory into long term storage
    • The forgetting of every childhood event

  5. A patient cannot recall practicing a task yet improves at it daily. What does that show?

    • Skill learning survived while episode forming failed
    • All memory systems failed together
    • Practice never changes the brain

  6. A researcher finds a synaptic change after training. What may she claim?

    • It relates to the memory but is not the memory itself
    • It is the memory itself, fully explained
    • It proves training never matters

  7. A student says consolidation finishes the moment learning ends. What is wrong?

    • Learning never involves the hippocampus
    • Consolidation is a slow settling process, not an instant
    • Old memories never stabilize

  8. A student says amnesia wipes out every kind of learning. What refutes this?

    • Patients forget every skill they ever knew
    • Amnesia improves athletic performance
    • Patients still learn new skills while forming no new episodes
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  1. How to ride a bike · Skills you show by doing belong on the non-declarative side.
  2. What you ate for breakfast · Declarative memories are facts and episodes you can say.
  3. False · It starts consolidation; keeping is a separate job elsewhere.
  4. The slow settling of a memory into long term storage · New memories settle slowly; they are not fixed at once.
  5. Skill learning survived while episode forming failed · Doing improves while telling fails, splitting the two stores.
  6. It relates to the memory but is not the memory itself · Brain changes support behaviour; the levels stay distinct.
  7. Consolidation is a slow settling process, not an instant · Settling into long term storage takes time.
  8. Patients still learn new skills while forming no new episodes · Spared skill learning beside lost episodes splits the stores.
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