Folio sacs

Question 1

Which stimuli are REPEATEDLY paired together in the stage of acquisition?

Answer 1

neutral stimulus (bell) + unconditioned stimulus (food)

Question 2

Why would someone in the EARLY stages of Alzheimer’s show Antergrade Amnesia ?

Answer 2

=Hippocampus is affected first.
-stores Long term Declarative memory, therefore the disease reduces the ability to encode and store new memories after damage to the hippocampus.

Question 3

Why would someone in the EARLY stages of Alzheimer’s NOT show Retrograde Amnesia?

Answer 3

• cerebral cortex has not yet been affected
• Long term memories are also stored in the Cerbral cortex, and no longer requires the Hippocampus to retrieve the Long term memories