Behaviour

Question 1

What does Rescorla-Wagner model do?

Answer 1

Assigns synapse strength between 0 and 1

Question 2

How to demonstrate operant conditioning?

Answer 2

Buzzer-carrot thing unchanged when on left or on right

Question 3

What is PIT?

Answer 3

Pavlovian to operant transfer - Pavlovian stimulus alters operant performance (eg rat presses lever more if it knows food is about to come)

Question 4

What are the basic emotions?

Answer 4

Fear, sadness, anger, happiness, disgust

Question 5

What makes up the limbic system?

Answer 5

Cingulate and orbitofrontal cortex, amygdala, hippocampus, basal ganglia, thalamus

Question 6

What part of brain was required for sham rage?

Answer 6

Remove cerebellum, need posterior hypothalamus

Question 7

What is Kluver-Bucy syndrome?

Answer 7

Bilateral temporal lobe resections caused tameness, emotional unresponsiveness

Question 8

Where does the medial geniculate nucleus project to?

Answer 8

Amygdala

Question 9

How many nuclei does the MGN have?

Answer 9

12

Question 10

What happens to fear response if the amygdala is lesioned?

Answer 10

Abolished

Question 11

Which conditioning is amygdala and hypothalamus dependent?

Answer 11

Contextual

Question 12

Which conditioning is amygdala dependent but hippocampus independent?

Answer 12

Cued

Question 13

Fear conditioning is underlied by long term potentiation where?

Answer 13

The lateral nucleus

Question 14

Which nucleus is involved in fight or flight?

Answer 14

Central

Question 15

How does diazepam work?

Answer 15

Acts on amygdala and enhances the action of GABA.

Question 16

What increases learnign during an emotional state?

Answer 16

BLA

Question 17

What do happy rats produce when they are eating?

Answer 17

Carbon disulphide

Question 18

Definition of impulsivity?

Answer 18

Poorly conceived, prematurely expressed, risky or inappropriate and result in undesirable consequences

Question 19

How does a D2 antagonist affect stopping and inhibition?

Answer 19

Slower stopping and less inhibition

Question 20

How does a D1 antagonist affect stopping and inhibition?

Answer 20

Better stopping and more inhibition

Question 21

What are dopamine receptors like in impulsive rats?

Answer 21

Decreased D2/3 receptor availability in the ventral striatum

Question 22

Which metabolite is delya intolerance associated with?

Answer 22

5-HIAA

Question 23

Definition of compulsivity?

Answer 23

Actions which persist inappropriately to the situation, have no relationship to the overall goal and often result in undesirable behaviour

Question 24

In crib biting, where is D1 and D2 receptor binding higher?

Answer 24

Nucleus accumbens

Question 25

Where was lidocaine injected to abolish a habitual left turn response?

Answer 25

Caudate nucleus

Question 26

What was removed to abolish displacement activity in labs rats?

Answer 26

Dopamine

Question 27

Dysfunction of what can cause crib biting?

Answer 27

Striatum

Question 28

Which antagonist did not work to cure a lick granuloma? What worked instead?

Answer 28

D2 antagonist, SSRI

Question 29

What is retrograde amnesia?

Answer 29

Forget events priory to trauma

Question 30

What is anterograde amnesia?

Answer 30

Can't retain new information

Question 31

What can cause anterograde amnesia?

Answer 31

Alzheimers, thiamine deficiency

Question 32

How do you measure working memory?

Answer 32

Delayed matching to sample task

Question 33

What is declarative info?

Answer 33

Remembering facts

Question 34

What is non-declarative info?

Answer 34

Habits and conditioning

Question 35

Removing what caused anterograde amnesia?

Answer 35

Medial temporal lobe, thalamus or mamillary bodies

Question 36

What tests recognition memory?

Answer 36

Delayed non-matching to sample

Question 37

Lesion of what caused worse performance in "delayed non-matching to sample"?

Answer 37

Temporal lobe lesion

Question 38

Which kind of learning was not affected by temporal lobe lesion?

Answer 38

Intact skills

Question 39

Monkeys with which lesions show impaired recognition memory?

Answer 39

Rhinal cortex lesions

Question 40

Rats with which lesions are bad at the Morris water maze?

Answer 40

Hippocampus

Question 41

Lesions of what impair food recovery in food caching birds?

Answer 41

Hippocampus

Question 42

What kind of conditioning is hippocampus important for?

Answer 42

Contextual

Question 43

Cutting which pigeon nerve impairs magnetic receptor?

Answer 43

V1

Question 44

Why does the phobia not extinguish when the CS occurs in the | absence of the US?

Answer 44

There are CS-US associations

Question 45

Why are not all stimuli equipotent in causing phobias?

Answer 45

Evolutionary bias

Question 46

What must be done to conclude that a behaviour is due to operant conditioning?

Answer 46

Must demonstrate that behaviours are due to the behaviour outcome relationship

Question 47

Blockage of which receptors prevents acquisition of conditioned freezing?

Answer 47

NMDA

Question 48

What is required for tone-shock conditioning?

Answer 48

Amygdala

Question 49

What is required for context-shock conditioning?

Answer 49

Amygdala and hippocampus

Question 50

Which amygdala nucelus is responsible for freezing and autonomic control?

Answer 50

Central

Question 51

Lesions of which part interfered with BP changes?

Answer 51

Lateral hypothalamus

Question 52

Lesion of what interferes with freezing?

Answer 52

PAG

Question 53

Which lesions mean a conditioned stimulus can't be used as a conditioned reinforcer?

Answer 53

Basolateral

Question 54

How do you measure waiting?

Answer 54

5-choice serial reaction time tast

Question 55

What effect do hippocampus lesions have if there is just one cue near the platform?

Answer 55

None