Exam 12: Learning, Memory, and Intelligence

 Mila gives her child candy after she cleans up her room. The candy is an example of _____.

 Elmer has Korsakoff's syndrome. He is likely to experience ____.

 The human brain constitutes 2 percent of the body's mass, but consumes 50 percent of its fuel

 If a stimulus is presented repeatedly, followed by no other stimulus, the animal will gradually stop responding. This is known as ____.

 If some of the synapses onto a cell have been highly active and others have not, only the active ones become strengthened. This is known as the property of ____.

 Most Korsakoff's victims have a loss or shrinkage of neurons throughout the brain, especially in the ____.

 In instrumental conditioning, an individual's response leads to a reinforcer or punishment.

 In studies that paired a tone with an air puff to the cornea of rabbits, learning was found to depend on one nucleus of the ____.

 Kelli has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. She likely is showing better memory for _____.

 H.M. was unable to form any kind of new memories after his surgery.

 Lashley's term "engram" refers to ____.

 Procedural memory deals with the ability to state a memory in words.

 If people with Down syndrome live long enough, they almost invariably develop ____.

 Retrograde amnesia is to ____ as anterograde amnesia is to ____.

 ____ is an influence of recent experience on behavior, even if one does not recognize that influence.

 What does the phrase "all parts of the cortex contribute equally to complex behaviors such as learning" define?

 Professor Olaughlin tells his class that with regard to intelligence, ______.

 A rat with hippocampal damage has difficulty with the Morris water maze because it ____.

 Moser, Moser, and O'Keefe shared the 2014 Nobel Prize for discovering a type of hippocampal neurons tuned to particular spatial locations, responding best when an animal is in a particular place. They called these neurons _____.

 One line of research that initially appeared promising, but has since faded, was to study learning in decapitated ____.