Exam 12: Learning and Memory

Samantha's grandfather has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Samantha knows that Parkinson's disease affects the basal ganglia,so she is able to tell her grandfather that he is likely to experience​ 

Mice with regular long-term potentiation (LTP)​ 

Eyeblink conditioning in human participants​ 

Long-term depression (LTD)reflects _________ in Purkinje cells.​ 

In Pavlov's classic experiments,salivation to a metronome is an example of a(n) 

Which of the following processes appears to be very similar to long-term potentiation (LTP)?​ 

Applying drugs that act as antagonists at the NMDA glutamate receptor before spatial learning occurs interferes with​ 

Buffers for auditory,visual,and combined types of information are managed by a "central executive" in _________ memory.​ 

-Referring to the numbered structures in this illustration,describe the flow of information along the perforant pathway,the mossy fiber pathway,and the Schaffer collateral pathway.​

What do the case studies of patients H.M.and N.A.tell us about memory?​

Following surgery on both temporal lobes,patient H.M.demonstrated​ 

Before reading the chapter on Neurological Disorders in his biological psychology textbook,Christopher had never heard of brain worms.Once he had mastered this knowledge,information about brain worms became part of Christopher's _________ memory.​ 

Monkeys perform poorly on the delayed non-matching to sample (DNMS)test following lesions in their _________ lobes.​ 

Long-term potentiation (LTP)in the hippocampus probably involves _________ receptors.​ 

-Summarize the sources of input to and output from the structures labeled number 2 in this illustration.​

In conditioned fear research with rats,which of the following might be used by the experimenters as a conditioned response? 

Changes in the magnitude of a response to environmental stimuli is typical in 

"Associativity" in the Hebbian synapse refers to the​ 

In studies of classical conditioning in Aplysia,which of the following usually serves as the unconditioned stimulus?​ 

Semantic and episodic memories are types of explicit memories.​