Ch 13 Quiz Flashcards
In Pavlov’s experiments he presented a sound followed by meat. Gradually the sound came to elicit salivation. The salivation to the meat in this experiment was the:
Unconditioned response
Lashley found that when he removed parts of the brain:
the amount of tissue removed was more important than its location.
The general function of working memory is to:
attend to and operate on current information.
Which of the following accurately described H.M.’s memory problems?
impaired explicit memory, but not implicit memory
A rat with hippocampal damage has difficulty with the Morris search task because it:
has difficulty remembering where the platform is from trial to trial.
Alzheimer’s disease is associated with brain damage as a result of:
tangles and plaques in the cerebral cortex and hippocampus.
People with damage in the anterior and inferior regions of the temporal lobe suffer:
semantic dementia.
It is believed that Hebbian synapses may be critical for:
Associative learning
Nearly simultaneous stimulation by two or more axons produces LTP, whereas stimulation by just one produces it weakly, if at all. This is known as the property of:
Cooperativity
When glutamate massively stimulates AMPA receptors, the resulting depolarization:
enables glutamate to stimulate nearby NMDA receptors.
