What does HSAM stand forWhat is the range of memory.pdf
- 1. What does HSAM stand for? What is the range of memory accuracy for HSAMs? Based on the brain scans of 12 HSAMs, which part of the brain appears to more active when they recall memories? What type of research is being conducted when a scientist takes functional brain scans while a participate in rememberingdescriptive, predictive or experimental? What research methods are scientists using when they study the memory of 11-year old HSAM, Jake Hassler, as he developscase study, self-report, observation, correlational study, experiment? What two questions are researches trying to answer by studying HSAMs?
- 2. WHAT IS MEMORY? (9:46) What structure in the brain did researchers discover is important for forming and maintaining new long-term memories from the case of HM (Henry Molaison)? According to your textbook CH 07 Memory, what type of memories are formed by this structure? Why did surgeons remove this structure from HMs brain? Did the surgery cure his disorder? What was a major unintended side effect of this surgery? Despite not having this structure in his brain, what types of memories could HM still develop? What task did scientist Brenda Milner use to demonstrate that HM could still form some types of long-term memories? How do we know that HM did not form an episodic memory of the task?
- 3. How do we know that HM formed procedural memories of the task? According to your textbook CH 7 Memory, where are implicit memories formed in the brain? Describe the two studies conducted by researcher of Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel by answering the questions that follow: For the first study, what was the question guiding the research? What was the subject for this study? Why did he choose this animal for his research? What type of research methods were used? What did he do? (method or procedure) What data did he collect? What did he find? (the results) How did he interpret the findings? (the conclusion)
- 4. For Kandels second study, what was the question guiding the research? What was the subject for the study? Why did they choose this subject for their study? What type of research methods did Kandel use? What did he do? (the method/procedure) What data did he collect? What did he find? How did Kandel interpret the results? WHERE
- 5. DOES MEMORY LIVE? (9:38) Where are memories stored in the brain? What is the role of the hippocampus in remembering? What happens to the integrity of a memory when you recall it? What is memory consolidation? Describe the study conducted by Karim Nadir by answering the questions below: What question were guiding his research? Who were his subjects? What did he do? (Method/procedure) What does the drug Azinomycin do?
- 6. What data did Nadir collect? What did he find? (results) How did he interpret the findings? (Conclusion) On the whole, are memories reliable? Based on the research of Nadir, which is a better metaphor for memory storage? a letter in an envelope a book on a shelf in a library a file in a computer that you can open, edit and save Why do we have confidence in the findings and conclusions of Nadirs study?
- 7. ERASNG AND MAKING MEMORIES (13:02) What does neuroscientist Merel Kindt study? What are phobias? Who are Kindts subjects? Why did she choose them as subjects? What did she do? (procedure) What data did she collect? (data collection) What did she find? (results) How did she interpret these findings? (conclusions)
- 8. What makes a fear memory unstable? According to memory research Elizabeth Loftus, memory is often _ . Describe Julia Shaws research by answering the questions that follow: What question is guiding her research? What type of study did she conduct? Who were her subjects? Why do you think she chose them as her subjects? What did she do? (procedure) What did she find? (results) How did she interpret her findings? (conclusions)
- 9. Why is her research so important? TRIGGERING MEMORIES (8:51) What is optogenetics? Describe the research of neuroscientist Christine Denny? What was the question guiding her research? Who were her subjects? Why did she use them as her subjects? What type of study did she conduct? What did she do? (methods/procedure) What data did she collect? What did she find? (results)
- 10. How did she interpret the findings? (conclusions) What is so groundbreaking about her research? Why might forgetting be adaptive or functional? Why dont we remember every single event? Are the movies Total Recall, Inception and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind science fact or science fiction? Explain.