Exam 12: Learning and Memory

At least in animal studies, flavonoids have been shown to ______.

What percentage of elderly population show plaques in their brain but do not suffer from any type of dementia?

Which of the following statements regarding Alzheimer's disease is FALSE?

Animals given a drug that blocks the neurotransmitter ______ were not able to remember the location of a hidden platform in the water memory task.

Studies that have used rats that were trained in the water memory task have identified the ______ as involved in consolidation.

How many individuals under 65 years of age, on average, are afflicted with Alzheimer's disease in the United States?

Your grandmother unfortunately had a stroke over the weekend. You take her to the doctor, and the doctor says that despite some memory loss, her nondeclarative memory will be fine. With what form of memory will your grandmother likely NOT have any deficits?

Forgetting is an active process that removes useless information to prevent the saturation of synapses with information.

When Alzheimer's disease attacks the frontal lobes, ______.

When researchers in Massachusetts developed a 3-D gel to grow cultures that more completely replicated Alzheimer's pathology, they discovered that ______.

All of the following are possible ways for learning to become compromised EXCEPT ______.

In observing the relationship between normal aging and memory, which of the following may most likely be affected?

With the Synapse Project, improvement in episodic memory was observed among the elderly who spent at least ______ cognitively engaged.

Reconsolidation during the vulnerable period of retrieval can cause a memory to ______.

In the movie Groundhog Day, the character played by Bill Murray experiences the same day over and over again. One of the activities he practices each day is playing the piano. By the end of the movie, he is able to play piano expertly. Someone with anterograde amnesia could do the same, but unlike Bill Murray's character, they would not remember ever practicing. This is because ______ memory is gone, but ______ memory remains intact following hippocampal damage.

Having a higher idea density early in life can reduce the effects of Alzheimer's disease later in life.

Foods containing flavonoids have been associated with which of the following?

The prefrontal area is most likely involved in ______, while the hippocampus responds during ______.

One subcortical area that undergoes substantial neuron loss during aging is the ______.

What is suggested to be the purpose of LTD?