Exam 17: Learning and Memory

Confabulation is a symptom of

Refer to the figure. What kind of neuronal change is illustrated by the figure?

Matching -Affect (emotion)

Patients with Korsakoff's syndrome may _______ in an attempt to conceal gaps in their memory.

Write a coherent and informative paragraph incorporating each of the following terms or concepts: temporal lobes; thalamus; retrograde amnesia; anterograde amnesia; declarative memory; nondeclarative memory.

LTP in area CA1 may be blocked by drugs that are _______ antagonists.

Strains of pigeons bred for superior homing ability have larger _______ than other pigeons.

Which compound has been shown to be a nootropic?

Although some forms of memory decline with age, _______ memory and declarative knowledge tend to remain stable.

In instrumental conditioning, an association is formed between an animal's behavior and

There are several successive processes in memory formation; the first stage is called

Refer to the figure. H.M.'s performance on the memory task represented by the figure demonstrated that

The eight-arm radial maze has been used with rats to demonstrate the importance of the _______ in _______ memory.

Axons from CA3 projecting to CA1 are called

Three forms of nonassociative learning are habituation, dishabituation, and _______.

Which kinds of memory tasks usually show decrements with aging?

Summarize recent evidence indicating the importance of neurogenesis to different kinds of memory formation.

Bilateral damage to the medial temporal lobes may lead to severe

Patient K.C. suffered a complete loss of _______ memory.

Studies of homing pigeons suggest that memory for spatial location is related especially to the