by BlastRoom
Where memories live, which kinds there are, and what the brain does to keep them.
#psychology

25 questions
One question set, multiple game modes. Tap any game to see it in action. Not sure which to pick?
Answer to place stones and capture territory.
Outrun the snow together.
Earn blasts, then hunt the other team.
Answer to earn energy, then climb.

The class blasts through walls together.
Bid on mystery lots. Most money wins.
Sell tours. Nice, standard, or a total scam.
Answer, restock, and serve the rush.
More correct answers pulls the rope your way.
Answer, then shoot down the alien wave.
Answer, then tap to leap the frozen ridge.
After a stroke, Mr. Alvarez rides a bicycle smoothly but cannot say when or where he learned to ride. Riding the bicycle draws on which memory system?
Maya clearly remembers where she sat on the first day of ninth grade and can describe the room. That remembering is mainly which memory system?
Seeing the word yellow makes a student faster to recognize banana, even though she does not notice the connection. This improvement uses which memory system?
Explaining the three branches of the U.S. government from memory draws most directly on which memory system?
A student saves a file with a keyboard shortcut automatically but cannot describe each finger movement. The shortcut performance relies on which memory system?
Naming the capital city of Peru on a quiz draws on which long-term memory system?
Remembering your own 16th birthday party, including who was there and what happened, is an example of which memory system?
A skateboarder balances and turns without consciously listing the steps. That skill depends most on which long-term memory system?
Knowing that a dog is a mammal is stored mainly as which type of long-term memory?
Replaying in your mind what you ate for breakfast yesterday uses which long-term memory system?
Playing a memorized piano scale with practiced finger movements relies mainly on which long-term memory system?
Recalling the definition of neurotransmitter for a psychology exam uses which long-term memory system?
Which brain structure is essential for forming many new explicit memories of facts and events?
A tire-screech sound now triggers fear after a crash. Which structure helps attach fear and emotional importance to that memory?
In a lab, a tone is paired with an air puff until a blink response is learned. Which structure is especially important for this conditioned motor response?
Holding a phone number in mind long enough to dial it relies heavily on activity in which brain area?
Once the hippocampus has helped consolidate an explicit memory, where does that memory come to be stored for the long term?
Flashbulb memories of shocking events are unusually vivid because of strong amygdala activity. Which structure works alongside the amygdala to encode the factual, contextual details of the event?
Improving the timing and coordination of a practiced tennis serve depends strongly on which brain structure?
Long-term potentiation names what synaptic change after repeated activation?
In a hippocampal pathway, repeated firing makes the postsynaptic cell respond more strongly the next time. What process is described?
Why is long-term potentiation used as a model for memory storage?
After hippocampal damage, a patient can repeat an old address but cannot form new memories of today's visitors. What deficit is most likely?
A patient with amygdala damage describes a fear-conditioning session accurately but no longer shows fear to the tone. Which memory is impaired?
After cerebellum damage, a patient remembers training instructions but cannot improve on a timed finger-tapping sequence. What memory deficit fits?
Crack the passcode before the zombies get in.
Answer, then swat bugs for bonus points.
Race through questions at your own speed.
Same question on every screen. Fastest wins.

Pick a tile, answer, hit bonuses and steals.
Forgetting, Distortion and Eyewitness Memory
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