Unit quiz: Plasticity, memory and learning

Check understanding, separately from reading

5 questions · 80% to pass · no timer. This quiz checks the lessons in this unit. These authored questions assess recognition and application of the taught distinctions, not professional qualification. You may review the lessons and retry. Repeat attempts reuse the question bank; a remembered answer is not proof of transfer to a new situation.

Saving a lesson records reading only. Previous lesson completions have not been converted into passing scores. You can continue reading without a pass; the assessment remains unpassed.

Question 1

Repeated accurate practice can alter performance and neural responses. A single pleasant feeling is not evidence that a durable skill has been formed.

Question 2

Remembering a birthday and riding a practiced bicycle are different memory demands. Difficulty with one need not imply loss of every kind of memory.

Question 3

Close the page and explain a synapse, then compare your account with the source. Revisit tomorrow instead of counting rereading fluency as recall.

Question 4

Reading a complex explanation while monitoring messages imposes switching costs. Reducing competing signals can improve learning without reducing conceptual depth.

Question 5

An unexpected reward can change learning more than an equally pleasant fully predicted reward. Surprise relative to expectation is important to the model.

Continuing does not mark this assessment passed.