Quiz 10 Flashcards
Alzheimer’s disease is associated with the accumulation of ____
amyloid deposits in the brain
people with amnesia may be able to learn how to play games like Tetris® despite having no ____
explicit memory for the learning
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?
his cat learned via classical conditioning
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 ____
conditioned stimulus
in studies of eyelid conditioning in rabbits, Thompson and his colleagues have demonstrated that learning for this conditioned response takes place in the ____
lateral interpositus nucleus of the cerebellum
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 ____
unconditioned response
what is the usual relationship between the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus in classical conditioning?
the conditioned stimulus should be presented first
the delayed response task requires responding to something that you saw or heard ____
a short while ago
in instrumental conditioning, reinforcement is ___
an event that increases the future probability of a response
an individual with Korsakoff’s syndrome due to chronic alcoholism is likely to experience shrinkage or loss of neurons in the ____
dorsomedial thalamus
Mila gives her child candy after she cleans up her room. The candy is an example of ____
a reinforcer
in instrumental conditioning, punishment is a(n) __
event that decreases the future probability of a response
the general function of working memory is to ___
attend to and operate on current information
the inability to form memories for events that happened after brain damage occurred is a characteristic of ___
anterograde amnesia
memories of how to do something are called __
procedural
whereas memories we can state in words are called __
declarative
damage to which structure impairs performance on the delayed matching-to-sample and delayed nonmatching-to-sample tasks?
hippocampus
if a stimulus is presented repeatedly, followed by no other stimulus, the animal will gradually stop responding. This is known as ___
habituation
after a series of electrical shocks, Oscar became overresponsive to lights and noises. This is an example of ___
sensitization
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?
time cells
