Reading "In Search of Memory" by Eric Kandel
Answer: Eric Kandel’s defining period happened during this time in his life.
Question: What is:
A) His college years
B) His time in the medical lab
C) The year he spent in Vienna before moving to the U.S.
D) His Nobel Prize acceptance
C) The year he spent in Vienna before moving to the U.S.
Answer: This type of memory helps you remember how to ride a bicycle.
Question: What is:
A) Emotional memory
B) Declarative memory
C) Procedural memory
D) Spatial memory
C) Procedural memory
Answer: This is the plural form of the word phenomenon.
Question: What is:
A) Phenomenas
B) Phenomenae
C) Phenomena
D) Phenomenons
C) Phenomena
Answer: This disorder is mentioned in the article as a condition where traumatic memories persist.
Question: What is:
A) Alzheimer’s disease
B) Down’s syndrome
C) PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder)
D) Amnesia
C) PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder)
Answer: This kind of memory — related to what you are currently thinking about — happens in the pre-frontal lobe.
Question: What is:
A) Declarative memory
B) Long-term memory
C) Emotional memory
D) Short-term memory
D) Short-term memory
Answer: Media is the plural of this word.
Question: What is:
A) Medium
B) Medius
C) Medion
D) Medias
A) Medium
Answer: These types of events are mentioned as often causing traumatic memories.
Question: What are:
A) Academic failures
B) Celebrations
C) Experiences of genocide, war, rape, or natural disasters
D) Getting lost in a city
C) Experiences of genocide, war, rape, or natural disasters
Answer: This part of the brain is responsible for emotional memory and managing fear.
Question: What is:
A) Cerebellum
B) Pre-frontal lobe
C) Amygdala
D) Hippocampus
C) Amygdala
Answer: This word, which refers to a layer of cells in the brain, has the plural form strata.
Question: What is:
A) Stratus
B) Stratum
C) Strado
D) Strat
B) Stratum
Answer: This word from the passage means “a time in your life that determined the direction of your future.”
Question: What is:
A) Retrospect
B) Defining period
C) Transition
D) Turning point
B) Defining period
Answer: The hippocampus is most closely associated with this type of memory.
Question: What is:
A) Procedural memory
B) Declarative memory
C) Emotional memory
D) Spatial memory
B) Declarative memory
Answer: The correct plural of matrix.
Question: What is:
A) Matrixes
B) Matrices
C) Matrixi
D) Matricies
B) Matrices
Answer: According to the article, this is what the new science of mind helps us understand.
Question: What is:
A) How to cure Alzheimer’s completely
B) Why people lose memory after trauma
C) How the brain stores information and creates consciousness
D) Why dreams occur
C) How the brain stores information and creates consciousness
Answer: This part of the neuron sends an electrical signal to communicate with other neurons.
Question: What is:
A) Axon
B) Synapse
C) Dendrite
D) Lobe
A) Axon