Quiz 10

Question 1

Alzheimer’s disease is associated with the accumulation of ____

Answer 1

amyloid deposits in the brain

Question 2

people with amnesia may be able to learn how to play games like Tetris® despite having no ____

Answer 2

explicit memory for the learning

Question 3

Jeremy’s cat always purrs when she eats her food. Each day, Jeremy would use the can opener to open the cat food and after a while, he found that his cat would purr each time he used the can opener even if he didn’t give her food. What happened?

Answer 3

his cat learned via classical conditioning

Question 4

Pavlov presented a sound followed by meat in his experiments. Gradually, the sound came to elicit salivation. The sound in this experiment would be considered the ____

Answer 4

conditioned stimulus

Question 5

in studies of eyelid conditioning in rabbits, Thompson and his colleagues have demonstrated that learning for this conditioned response takes place in the ____

Answer 5

lateral interpositus nucleus of the cerebellum

Question 6

Pavlov presented a sound followed by meat in his experiments. Gradually, the sound came to elicit salivation. The salivation to the meat in this experiment was the ____

Answer 6

unconditioned response

Question 7

what is the usual relationship between the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus in classical conditioning?

Answer 7

the conditioned stimulus should be presented first

Question 8

the delayed response task requires responding to something that you saw or heard ____

Answer 8

a short while ago

Question 9

in instrumental conditioning, reinforcement is ___

Answer 9

an event that increases the future probability of a response

Question 10

an individual with Korsakoff’s syndrome due to chronic alcoholism is likely to experience shrinkage or loss of neurons in the ____

Answer 10

dorsomedial thalamus

Question 11

Mila gives her child candy after she cleans up her room. The candy is an example of ____

Answer 11

a reinforcer

Question 12

in instrumental conditioning, punishment is a(n) __

Answer 12

event that decreases the future probability of a response

Question 13

the general function of working memory is to ___

Answer 13

attend to and operate on current information

Question 14

the inability to form memories for events that happened after brain damage occurred is a characteristic of ___

Answer 14

anterograde amnesia

Question 15

memories of how to do something are called __

Answer 15

procedural

Question 16

whereas memories we can state in words are called __

Answer 16

declarative

Question 17

damage to which structure impairs performance on the delayed matching-to-sample and delayed nonmatching-to-sample tasks?

Answer 17

hippocampus

Question 18

if a stimulus is presented repeatedly, followed by no other stimulus, the animal will gradually stop responding. This is known as ___

Answer 18

habituation

Question 19

after a series of electrical shocks, Oscar became overresponsive to lights and noises. This is an example of ___

Answer 19

sensitization

Question 20

a rat has to run on a treadmill for 20 seconds to get a reward. While the rat is running, what kind of cells will be periodically active and thus help the rat keep track of the amount of time that has passed?

Answer 20

time cells