Lesson 3.2.3.4.3

3.2.3.4.3 Tulving's 'gold' memory study Quiz: AQA Psychology, Unit 7

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The 20 questions

  1. Which area of psychology does Tulving's 'gold' memory study belong to, according to the specification?

    • Clinical psychology, which focuses on diagnosing and treating mental health conditions
    • Neuropsychology, which links brain structure and function to memory and cognition
    • Social psychology, which examines how groups and other people shape individual behaviour
    • Developmental psychology, which studies how children change in thinking and behaviour

  2. In neuropsychology, what is cognitive neuroscience concerned with?

    • How the structure and function of the brain relate to behaviour and cognition
    • How heart rate and blood pressure respond to fear and other forms of stress
    • How children acquire language through reinforcement from parents and teachers
    • How social groups change the way people behave when they are in public settings

  3. Why do neuropsychologists study memory tasks alongside brain scans?

    • To connect specific memory processes with the brain areas that may support them
    • To prove that every memory is stored in one single location in the brain
    • To decide which scanning technique is the cheapest option for a hospital
    • To measure how long a participant can hold their breath during a test

  4. A patient shows a memory deficit after damage to the temporal lobe. What kind of conclusion does this support?

    • That the temporal lobe has no role in any cognitive function at all
    • That the temporal lobe controls all voluntary movements of the body
    • That the cerebellum alone is responsible for storing every memory
    • That the temporal lobe contributes to memory processing

  5. What is the best description of a 'memory study' in neuropsychology?

    • A questionnaire on how forgetting affects people's social life and friendships
    • A personal diary that a participant keeps about daily events and routines
    • A controlled investigation of how memory works, often linked to brain function
    • A survey asking people how well they remember events from their childhood

  6. A researcher wants to link a memory task to brain activity. Which combination is most appropriate?

    • A diet diary combined with a blood sugar test taken after each meal
    • A standardised memory task combined with an fMRI scan during recall
    • A reaction-time task combined with a handwriting sample from each participant
    • A personality questionnaire combined with a skull X-ray taken at rest

  7. Why must a neuropsychological memory study keep its test conditions standardised?

    • So that the study can be published without any review by other researchers
    • So that the scanner can run at a lower magnetic strength during testing
    • So that result differences can be attributed to the tested variable
    • So that participants never remember the instructions they were given

  8. Which of these is a cognitive process studied in memory research?

    • Regulating body temperature through the activity of the sweat glands
    • Producing bile in the liver to break down fats in the small intestine
    • Digesting food in the stomach after a meal is eaten by the person
    • Encoding information so that it can be stored and later retrieved

  9. A patient's memory recall is intact but their movement is impaired after a stroke. What does this suggest?

    • Memory and motor functions can be affected separately by damage to different brain areas
    • Memory is controlled by the same brain area that controls the body's temperature
    • Memory and motor functions always fail together after any form of stroke
    • Memory and motor functions are both controlled by the same single neuron

  10. Which lobe is most associated with planning and voluntary movement?

    • Frontal lobe, which includes the motor area for voluntary movement
    • Temporal lobe, which contains the areas that process sound and hearing
    • Occipital lobe, which contains the areas that process visual information
    • Cerebellum, which sits beneath the cortex and handles the sense of smell

  11. Which conclusion would be least supported by evidence from neuropsychological memory research?

    • That memory involves several processes that depend on different brain areas
    • That brain scans can help show which areas support memory performance
    • That brain damage in some areas can affect the ability to remember
    • That memory is a single process located in one small part of the brain

  12. Why does neuropsychology rely on evidence from both scans and memory tasks?

    • Each method is guaranteed to give the same result every time it is repeated
    • Each method removes the need for any statistical analysis of the results
    • Each method measures only the participant's mood and emotional state
    • Each method offers different evidence about how brain function relates to behaviour

  13. A researcher finds a memory task produces different brain activity when participants are tired. Which variable is most likely being considered?

    • The independent variable, which is the memory task the researcher controls
    • The standard deviation of the scan images across all of the participants
    • An extraneous variable that could affect the results of the study
    • The dependent variable, which is the brain activity measured by the scanner

  14. Which statement best describes localisation of function in the brain?

    • Specific functions, such as language, link to particular brain areas
    • Brain areas have no fixed role and their function changes at random over time
    • Brain functions are determined only by the length of the spinal cord
    • Every brain function is spread evenly across the entire cortex of the brain

  15. A memory study scans the same participants at two times. What does this repeated design allow the researcher to examine?

    • Change in a participant's brain activity between the two sessions
    • Whether the tracer has lost all of its radioactivity by the second session
    • Whether the participants' favourite music changed between the two sessions
    • Whether the scanner was calibrated correctly on the first day only

  16. Which statement about Tulving's gold study is most accurate based on the specification?

    • It is named in the specification as a study of motor behaviour after stroke
    • It is named in the specification as a study of the causes of depression
    • It is named in the specification as a study of alcohol abuse and peer influence
    • It is named in the specification as an example of memory research

  17. A researcher links brain damage to a memory deficit. Which principle is being applied?

    • Brain structure and function relate to cognitive processes such as memory
    • Memory is determined entirely by genetic inheritance with no brain involvement
    • Memory is independent of brain structure and depends on mood alone
    • Memory is controlled only by the peripheral branches of the nervous system

  18. Which best describes the value of pairing a memory task with a brain scan in neuropsychology?

    • It shows that memory depends only on how much sleep a person has had recently
    • It removes the need for participants to complete any memory test at all
    • It proves that a memory is stored in one exact spot that never changes over time
    • It helps link a specific memory process to the brain activity that may support it

  19. Which pair correctly matches a technique with what it shows in memory neuropsychology?

    • CT with changes in blood oxygen linked to brain activity during a task
    • CT with radioactive tracer uptake in brain tissue during a memory task
    • PET with differences in bone density between regions of the skull
    • fMRI with changes in blood oxygen linked to brain activity during a memory task

  20. Which feature of Tulving's study sits within the wider neuropsychology content of the specification?

    • It links a memory process to a social explanation of group conformity
    • It links a memory process to a developmental stage in childhood
    • It links a memory process to a clinical diagnosis of a mood disorder
    • It links a memory process to a neuropsychological explanation of brain function

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