Exam 1: History, background, and Basic Concepts

Ebbinghaus's results suggest that studying a large number of names and dates immediately before an exam

Long-term potentiation

A particular cell in a cat's visual system might respond most strongly to a line with an angle that is 60ᵒ from the horizontal.Available evidence suggests that a cat's previous visual experiences

The "simple cells" discovered by Hubel and Wiesel,which respond to lines of particular orientations,can be found in

Ebbinghaus used nonsense syllables in his list-learning experiments primarily because

Ebbinghaus's experiments in which a previously-learned list was systematically rearranged and the new list was learned provided evidence supporting

If a child learns the concept of house before the concept of floor,this learning

One disadvantage of using animals in research on learning is that

During the course of brain operations with human subjects,Penfield found that electrical stimulation of specific areas of the cerebral cortex

Nativism is

Laws in the United States require that research animals have

According to Thomas Brown's secondary principles of association,learning is affected by

Ebbinghaus discovered that continuing to study a list of nonsense syllables after he could already recite the list perfectly

Which of the following is an example of an intervening variable-

Aristotle's rules of association included all of the following except

B. F. Skinner used white rats in his early experiments because

Neal Miller argued that intervening variables are helpful when dealing with many independent and dependent variables because they make a theory

To account for all the relations between two independent variables and three dependent variables,a theory without intervening variables would have to describe

If a subject memorizes a list perfectly in 10 trials,and then takes 6 trials to relearn the list the next day,the amount of savings is

The __________ of a neuron receive(s)the transmitter released by other neurons.