Exam 12: Learning, Memory, and Decision Making

Following unavoidable predator exposure in rats, their brains show ________.

According to the chapter, what brain change is observed in people with highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM)?

A heightened autonomic response along with reduced cortisol levels might be observed in someone suffering from ______.

________ ideas about modified neuronal circuits accompanying changes in behavior became the precursor to the subsequent theories of neuroplasticity and neural networks.

_________ improve memory in rats.

The two types of glutamate receptors are AMPA and NMDA.

The inability to form new long-term memories after a brain injury is known as retrograde amnesia.

Although declarative and procedural memories are very different, they both depend critically on the hippocampus.

In Pavlov's conditioning experiments the conditioned response was typically _________.

Damage similar to that of HM results in better memory for events prior to the damage than for recent events.

Karl Lashley had spent his entire career searching in the brain for memory traces in the________.

What happens to memory with age?

The classical conditioning of the eyeblink response critically depends on the ______________.

What brain region is critical for classical conditioning of the eyeblink response?

___________ refers to patients with brain damage effortlessly making up stories to fill in gaps in their memories

The part of the brain that encodes the probability of positive outcomes is the ________.

Procedural memory consists of ________.

________ has been proposed to be the biological mechanism underlying learning and memory.

Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It (1913) was written by ___________.

Those with highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM) do not show ________.