Exam 12: Learning, Memory, and Intelligence

 Retrograde transmitters ____.

 Hebb believed that short-term memory ____.

 Lorita doesn't like to get shots and each time she gets one, she cries. Last week, she went to the doctor's office. Before the doctor came in, Lorita started crying. In this scenario, explain what parts are the conditioned and unconditioned stimuli and responses.

 Lashley found that a deep cut in a rat's cerebral cortex completely eliminated the effects of learning under what circumstances, if any?

 The cortex works as a whole, and the more cortex the better, defines ____.

 The general function of working memory is to ____.

 Describe the role of the basal ganglia in memory function.

 The delayed response task requires responding to something that you saw or heard ____.

 Nearly simultaneous stimulation by two or more axons produces LTP, whereas stimulation by just one produces it weakly, if at all. This is known as the property of ____.

 The memory for the development of motor skills is termed ____.

 Professor Kunze tells his class that a(n) _____ is the physical representation of what has been learned.

 Crysta is a chronic alcoholic who has developed Korsakoff's syndrome. She has damaged her neurons in the _____ which sends information to her _____ cortex.

 Professor McDougle tells her class that a Hebbian synapse is one that can ____.

 In addition to the neurotransmitter glutamate, in order to activate the NMDA receptors, the neuron requires ____.

 Alzheimer's patients have impairments in ____ memory, but are relatively unimpaired in ____ memory.

 Shanna has Korsakoff's syndrome. She couldn't remember what she did last night, so she guessed what she did and told her friend she went to the park. Shanna's story about the park is an example of ______.

 Professor Loy tells his class that Lashley failed to find the engram because _____.

 Which type of memory is MOST impaired by damage to the hippocampus?

 Most researchers now believe that the accumulation of amyloid and tau protein ____.

 In studies of eyelid conditioning in rabbits, Thompson and his colleagues have demonstrated that learning for this conditioned response takes place in the ____.