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QUESTION 2 H.M. provides an illustration for which major theme of the chapter? a. Memory is not very important. b. Introspection is not sufficient evidence in and of itself. C. Cognition is interested in mental processes, as well as activities that depend on these processes. d. Damage to a small part of the brain can have a negligible effect on behavior. QUESTION 3 The phrase "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me" would not apply to H.M. Why? a. H.M. was able to learn certain things, like if someone was lying to him. b. H.M. values practical jokes. c. H.M. was never fooled. d. H.M. was incapable of learning. QUESTION 4 You give your friend a series of lists of letters to remember. With each perfectly recalled list you increase the list length by one or two items, until he begins to make errors. This sort of test examines a. brain activity. b. memory for abstract objects. c. working memory span. d. the limits of concurrent articulation,

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QUESTION 2

CORRECT ANSWER

Cognition is interested in mental processes, as well as activities that depend on these processes

Cognition is "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses" It encompasses many aspects of intellectual functions and processes such as attention, the formation of knowledge, memory and working memory, judgment and evaluation, reasoning and "computation", problem solving and decision making, comprehension and production of language. Cognitive processes use existing knowledge and generate new knowledge.

QUESTION 3

CORRECT ANSWER

H.M. was incapable of learning

Henry Molaison (HM) taught us about memory by losing his. HM, age 60. Henry Molaison, known by thousands of psychology students as "HM," lost his memory on an operating table in a hospital in Hartford in August 1953. He was 27 years old and had suffered from epileptic seizures for many years.