Rats Have One Advantage Over Monkeys in the Study of Medial

question 71

Multiple Choice

Rats have one advantage over monkeys in the study of medial temporal lobe amnesia:

• A) In rats, the hippocampus can readily be aspirated without substantial medial temporal cortex damage.
• B) Rats live longer.
• C) Rats learn object-recognition tasks more readily.
• D) Rats have better episodic memories.
• E) Rats have a subcortical hippocampus.

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Definitions:

State-Dependent Memory

The phenomenon where information learned in a particular state of mind (e.g., happy, sad) is more easily recalled when in that same state of mind.

Effortful Processing

A type of encoding that requires attention and conscious effort to remember information.

Nonsense Syllables

A set of letters that do not form a recognizable word, used in memory and learning experiments.

Crowdsourcing

The practice of obtaining information, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, especially from an online community, rather than from traditional employees.