Exam 12: Learning, Memory, and Intelligence

 Procedural memory is to ____ as declarative memory is to ____.

 When Penfield stimulated the temporal cortex of alert and awake brain surgery patients, he found that they ____.

 In instrumental conditioning, reinforcement is ____.

 Amyloid is to ____ as tau is to ____.

 Dr. Kandel won a Nobel Prize for his work studying the _____ in Aplysia.

 Professor Straker tells her class that, for humans, intelligence scores correlate with the surface area of the ______.

 After LTP is established, NMDA receptors are not required to maintain it.

 Korsakoff's patients best remember a list of short sentences by ____.

 Damage to the ____ produces symptoms similar to Korsakoff's syndrome.

 Pavlov presented a sound followed by meat in his experiments. Gradually, the sound came to elicit salivation. The sound in this experiment would be considered the ____.

 Dr. Atchley is performing an autopsy on a brain of a patient who had Alzheimer's disease. What two cellular abnormalities would Dr. Atchley expect to find? What damage would these have done to the brain?

 Hippocampal damage impairs spatial memory.

 Jeramy's cat always purrs when she eats her food. Each day, Jeramy would use the can opener to open the cat food and after a while, he found that his cat would purr each time he used the can opener even if he didn't give her food. What happened?

 The inability to form memories for events that happened after brain damage is a characteristic of ____ amnesia.

 What is the primary cause of Korsakoff's syndrome and what is one of its most distinctive symptoms?

 After a series of electrical shocks, Cira became overresponsive to lights and noises. This exemplifies ____.

 Briefly describe how LTP occurs, including how glutamate and its receptors are involved.

 One ironic but interesting finding is that people with amnesia will improve on ____ tasks, but have no ____ memory with respect to the task.

 Hippocampal damage has the greatest effect on ____.

 Information in short-term memory is lost more easily than that in long term memory.