Exam 12: Learning, Memory, and Decision Making

Successful performance in the delayed nonmatching-to-sample task is critically dependent on the _______.

Henry Molaison's medial temporal lobes and both hippocampi were removed by experimental surgery in a desperate attempt to treat his ________.

B. F. Skinner's work explored ___________.

Changes in the ___________ accompany acrobatic training in rats.

What brain area would likely be activated if an expected outcome does not occur following a decision?

John B. Watson was the first to describe the law of effect.

___________ discovered that certain cells in the rat hippocampus were activated when the rats were located in specific locations.

Someone with ________ can no longer form new long-term memories.

___________ protein can be used to determine whether neurons in a brain region have fired recently.

Clive Wearing's encephalitis-induced amnesia has spared his memories of ________.

________ investigates the neural computations that accompany value-based decisions.

Long-lasting sensitization of the gill withdrawal response requires activation of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA).

Stimulation at θ (theta) wave rhythm may produce long term potentiation (LTP).

When a memory is retrieved in a classically conditioned animal, the administration of a protein synthesis inhibitor can disrupt the original memory. This finding suggests that protein synthesis is important for ________.

PET scans in humans have shown that the hippocampus is activated when subjects are asked to ________.

The slow encoding of rigid associations would best be exemplified by________.

_____________ is characterized by the selection of specific stimuli in the environment from multiple sensory options

In rats, the _____________ are involved in action-outcome associations.

Certain biochemical alterations such as the modification of the ___________ receptor are critical in both LTP and memory formation.

In the eye-blink reflex conditioning task, the ___________ forms the association between the tone, air-puff, and eye-blink.