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In operant conditioning, an individual's response leads to a reinforcer or punishment. |
True |
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Lashley was able to determine that the frontal lobe cortex is more important for memories than the parietal lobe cortex. |
False |
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H.M. was unable to form any kind of new memories after his surgery. |
False |
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Procedural memory deals with the ability to state a memory in words. |
False |
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A distinctive symptom of Korsakoff's syndrome is confabulation, in which patients guess to fill in memory gaps. |
True |
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After LTP is established, NMDA receptors are not required to maintain it. |
True |
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Drugs used to treat Alzheimer's disease affect activity of the cortex by enhancing the effects of acetylcholine. |
True |
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In operant conditioning, punishment is:
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an event that decreases the future probability of a response.
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Karl Lashley called the physical basis of learning a(n): |
engram. |
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In studies that paired a tone with an air puff to the cornea of rabbits, learning was found to depend on one nucleus of the: |
cerebellum. |
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Research indicates that the red nucleus is necessary for: |
the performance of a conditioned response. |
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The general function of working memory is to: |
attend to and operate on current information. |
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Which of the following drug types is most promising for treating people with failing memory? |
b. stimulants c. tranquilizers d. depressants |
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A peculiarity of the memory of the neurological patient H.M. was that he was able to: |
retain new skills but not remember having learned them. |
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Hippocampal damage has the greatest effect on: |
the delayed match–to–sample task when the two objects are continuously changed. |
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Who is most likely to develop Korsakoff's syndrome? |
chronic alcoholics |
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A study of patients with amnesia reveals that people: |
do not lose all aspects of memory equally. |
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If a stimulus is presented repeatedly, followed by no other stimulus, the animal will gradually stop responding. This is known as: |
habituation. |
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Strong stimulation anywhere on the skin of an Aplysia excites axons that attach to receptors and: |
close potassium channels in the membrane. |
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If there is a burst of intense stimulation to a dendrite by one or more axons connected to it in a rapid series, it is known as: |
long–term potentiation of the cell's response to stimuli. |
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Long–term potentiation produces a long–term enhancement of glutamate responses at the:
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AMPA synapses.
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What is known to be critical for long–term potentiation? |
AMPA synapses. |
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Drugs that block NMDA synapses: |
prevent the establishment of LTP |