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Assignment:

1. You are taking a course in college. Please list and describe all possible ways and strategies to maximize your long-term memory of what you are learning in the course. Include, for each of them, an explanation of why they will help your long-term retention.

2. You are having dinner with some friends: Amy, Mark, and Jason. You are telling them about when Mark and you went on a trip to New York. You remember some details of the trip, but not others. Please explain all possible reasons why you might be failing to recall some memories of that trip.

3. How did the case of H.M. influence early and current understanding of memory? Describe H.M.'s case and explain how H.M.'s case informed different areas of memory, including the neuroscience of memory.

4. What is generic memory? What is episodic memory? What is autobiographical memory? Explain similarities and differences between generic, episodic, and autobiographical memory and to what extent they are related or separate systems. Include brain areas involved, and how studying the neuroscience of these memory systems helps understand memory.

5. a) Shayne is 20 years old now. What kind of information / events / experiences from the time when she was a 1-year-old child will she remember now? What kind of information / events / experiences from the time when she was a 1-year-old child will she NOT remember now? Explain all possible types of memories that she will and will not remember and why she will or will not remember them.

b) John is 63 years old now. When he was in his 20s, he suffered several mild and two severe concussions. What kind of cognitive deficits is he likely to be experiencing now? What kind of damage would be observed in his brain if it could be analyzed right now?