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Which part of the assessment is most important in the diagnosis of global amnesia? (27). a) The interview with the patient. b) All are important. c) The clinical history obtained from family members. d) Standardized tests.

The short story test assesses: (27). a) Retrograde memory for recent facts. b) Anterograde memory. c) Semantic memory. d) None of the answers is correct.

In which part of autobiographical memory is accuracy typically greatest? (27). a) Late adolescence and early adulthood. b) Early childhood. c) From age 41 up to two years before a pathological event. d) Second childhood.

Patient H.M.: (27). a) Was described as a patient living in an “eternal present”. b) Suffered from drug-resistant partial epilepsy. c) Had a very severe retrograde amnesia. d) All answers are correct.

According to Nadel and Moscovitch’s theory of consolidation: (27). a) None of the answers is correct. b) Memories undergo continuous remodeling with an exclusively neocortical contribution. c) Memories crystallize very rapidly and become independent of hippocampal contribution. d) Memories undergo continuous remodeling with continued hippocampal contribution.

The hypothesis of amnesia as a deficit in memory trace consolidation is: (27). a) Implausible because consolidation lasts years. b) None of the answers is correct. c) Implausible because of anterograde amnesia. d) Plausible if consolidation is considered to last years.

According to the standard theory of consolidation: (27). a) Associative neocortex becomes the exclusive long-term storage site of engrams. b) All answers are correct. c) The hippocampal contribution fades after about one year. d) The frontal neocortex contributes to initial encoding (within the first minute).

Which of the following statements is incorrect? (27). a) The clinical features of global amnesia do not vary in crucial aspects depending on lesion site. b) Global amnesia may also result from thalamic lesions. c) Hippocampal global amnesia is nevertheless associated with a network deficit. d) The clinical features of global amnesia vary depending on lesion site, somewhat like aphasias.

Which interfering task would you not introduce between the first and second recall of a short story? (27). a) A verbal fluency task. b) Trail Making Test B. c) Corsi Tapping Test. d) Raven’s Progressive Matrices.

In the diagnosis of a form of global amnesia… (27). a) A semantic memory deficit is also tolerable. b) The deficit must involve exclusively the episodic component of memory. c) A deficit in motor skill learning is also tolerable. d) A purely anterograde deficit is also typical.

Purely retrograde amnesia: (27). a) Can be observed in contexts of fraudulent simulation, especially when autobiographical aspects prevail. b) Is rare and has no clear neural correlate. c) Raises theoretical and empirical problems for what we know about memory processes. d) All answers are correct.

Relative preservation of immediate recall of a short story with severe impairment in delayed recall suggests: (27). a) It is nevertheless compatible with an episodic memory deficit. b) Relative sparing of working memory. c) Relative sparing of the episodic buffer. d) All answers are correct.

In which of the following tests can the absence of primacy effects in amnesia be assessed? (27). a) Free recall of 10 supra-span word lists (one list at a time). b) None of the answers is correct. c) Learning of word pairs. d) Span for bisyllabic words.

The Corsi test, Doors Test, and Rey figure can be used to assess: (27). a) Anterograde visuospatial memory. b) Visuospatial memory in general. c) None is correct. d) Retrograde visuospatial memory.

In transient global amnesia, which aspect of behavior must be preserved? (27). a) Memory for very recent events. b) None of the answers is correct. c) Memory for new events. d) Sense of self and personal identity.