Retrograde amnesia associated with a traumatic head injury can be directly related to the loss of memories considered as both short-term and long-term, including any events immediately related to the trauma.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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Question 2) Memory consolidation probably occurs via an increase in the effectiveness of existing synapses and also via formation of new ones.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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Question 3) Retrograde amnesia is the loss of memory for all events that happened before a serious brain trauma such as a blow to the head.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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Question 4) Learning is generally facilitated if the material to be learned is emotionally neutral.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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Question 5) EEG with waves of high amplitude and low frequency is descriptive of or occurs during
A. slow-wave sleep.
B. paradoxical sleep.
C. both slow-wave sleep and paradoxical sleep.
D. neither slow-wave sleep nor paradoxical sleep.
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Question 6) Tolerance to drugs that are neurotransmitter agonists is thought to involve increased release of the neurotransmitter in response to the drug.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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Question 7) Persons suffering from anterograde amnesia continually have short-lived, rapidly changing perceptions of events that they have only imagined,
but then cannot recall them later as a consequence of an inability to translate these false memories from short-term to long-term memory.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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Question 8) Working memory is labile and can be lost in response to any condition that interrupts electrical activity of the brain.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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Question 9) All of the psychogenic drugs that induce drug dependence act on the same neuronal system.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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Question 10) Both short- and long-term memory are seated in and associated with the same specific functional regions of the brain.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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