Exam 3: Habituation, Sensitization, and Familiarization: Learning About Repeated Events

The capacity for cortical receptive fields and cortical spatial organization to change as a result of experience is called:

If sensitization of the gill-withdrawal reflex is heterosynaptic, which would occur?

People are generally better at distinguishing individuals belonging to racial groups that they frequently encounter than individuals belonging to racial groups with whom they don't interact. This is an example of:

Explain what a place cell is.

Neurons that respond to inputs from more than one sensory modality are known as:

Which statement is TRUE regarding the use of constraint-induced movement therapy to treat learned non-use?

How do rats' place cells respond when a maze is rotated? What does this tell us about how rats navigate?

Scientists have been working on a device that can be implanted in the retina of blind people to help them see again. Such a device is an example of:

A decrease in the strength or occurrence of a behavior after repeated exposure to the stimulus that produces the behavior is called:

In Aplysia, what accounts for the habituation of the gill-withdrawal reflex?

Suppose a baby is presented repeatedly with the color yellow. Which statement would demonstrate that habituation is stimulus specific in this case?

A child who is exposed to a foreign language may have an easier time learning that language later on in life. This is an example of:

If an animal is born deaf, in what ways does its cortex in adulthood differ from that of an animal with normal hearing?

When more sensory neurons are tuned to a particular feature of a stimulus, the organism will:

If one is feeling bored with one's romantic partner, which approach would be expected to improve one's feelings by bringing about dishabituation?

Touching a patch of skin on the hand causes a particular neuron in the brain to fire. That particular patch of skin would be part of the neuron's:

Regarding spatial learning, it has been found that:

How does constraint-induced movement therapy capitalize on the idea of cortical plasticity?

Jessie is lying down when suddenly a firefly moves across her room. It disappears after 10 seconds. When it reappears, she stares at it again. The duration of time in which she looks at it is known as:

Explain how a therapist might make use of habituation to treat a patient who has a fear of spiders.