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Multiple Choice

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Scenario II
Famous within psychology,patient HM had parts of his temporal lobes-including his hippocampus-removed to stop incurable and life-threatening epileptic seizures.The surgery was successful;however,patient HM was left with a severe case of anterograde amnesia.Subsequent tests found that his short-term and implicit memory systems were not affected by the surgery.
-(Scenario II) Which memory processes were severely impaired by the surgery?

• A)episodic memories from after the surgery
• B)episodic memories from years before the surgery
• C)procedural memories from both before and after the surgery
• D)procedural memories from only after the surgery

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Definitions:

Stimulus Generalisation

The tendency for a response that has been conditioned to one stimulus to be elicited by similar stimuli.

Stimulus Discrimination

The learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and other stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus.

Stimulus Discrimination

The learned ability to differentiate between a conditioned stimulus and other stimuli that are not paired with an unconditioned stimulus.

Conditioned Stimulus

A stimulus that initially does not trigger a response, but after being paired with an unconditioned stimulus, it comes to elicit a conditioned response.