Ch 13 Quiz Flashcards

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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:

A

Unconditioned response

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Lashley found that when he removed parts of the brain:

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the amount of tissue removed was more important than its location.

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3
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The general function of working memory is to:

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attend to and operate on current information.

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4
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Which of the following accurately described H.M.’s memory problems?

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impaired explicit memory, but not implicit memory

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5
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A rat with hippocampal damage has difficulty with the Morris search task because it:

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has difficulty remembering where the platform is from trial to trial.

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6
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Alzheimer’s disease is associated with brain damage as a result of:

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tangles and plaques in the cerebral cortex and hippocampus.

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7
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People with damage in the anterior and inferior regions of the temporal lobe suffer:

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semantic dementia.

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8
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It is believed that Hebbian synapses may be critical for:

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Associative learning

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9
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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:

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Cooperativity

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10
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When glutamate massively stimulates AMPA receptors, the resulting depolarization:

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enables glutamate to stimulate nearby NMDA receptors.

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