Exam 12: Learning, Memory, and Intelligence

 H.M. was able to learn and remember ____.

 What is one explanation for why Lashley failed at finding the engram?

 Alzheimer's leads to the accumulation of ____ in the brain.

 Nanci was adopted. When she was young, her IQ score was more similar to her _____ parents. As she grew older, her IQ became more similar to her ____ parents.

 Rosalinda stimulated the gills of an Aplysia by squirting them with a brief jet of seawater, at first, it will ____.

 A rat has to run on a treadmill for 20 seconds to get a reward. While running, certain hippocampal neurons called ____ will be active at particular times during the 20 seconds so the rat can keep track.

 Vicky is a chronic alcoholic. Recently, she has started having memory problems. She will most likely be diagnosed with _____.

 During habituation of the gill-withdrawal reflex in Aplysia, the change in the nervous system takes place at the ____.

 Studies on ____ help clarify the distinctions among different kinds of memory and enable us to explore the mechanisms of memory.

 Eye-blink conditioning depends on the lateral interpositus nucleus.

 A burst of intense stimulation to a dendrite by one or more axons connected to it in a rapid series can be described as the ____.

 Habituation is a decrease in response to a stimulus that is presented repeatedly and accompanied by no change in other stimuli.

 In instrumental conditioning, punishment is a(n) ____.

 Forgetting events prior to the time of brain damage is a characteristic of ____ amnesia.

 Describe the difference between declarative and procedural memory.

 Which action is most difficult to classify as classical or instrumental conditioning?

 There is compelling evidence for the role of the hippocampus in ____ memory.

 Bert would use his striatum when learning information that_____.

 A study with London taxi drivers found that answering ____ activated their hippocampus more than answering ____.

 A study of patients with amnesia reveals that people ____.