Exam 3: Habituation, Sensitization, and Familiarization: Learning About Repeated Events

A child who is exposed to a foreign language may have an easier time learning that language later on in life.This is an example of:

If sensitization of the gill-withdrawal reflex is heterosynaptic,which of the following would occur?

Explain how discrimination training could be used for teaching students to distinguish between good and poor writing.

Rats that are exposed to circles and triangles for a month can learn to discriminate between these two shapes more quickly than rats not exposed to the shapes.This finding demonstrates:

How might you use priming to encourage people to be polite?

In learning a foreign word,you might first remember some of the basic sounds;with repeated exposure to the word,you begin to remember more of the details,including more complex sounds and meanings of the components of the word.This is the account of perceptual learning proposed by:

An infant turning her head to look at a novel pattern is an example of:

It is believed that the mechanisms of habituation documented in aplysia occur in other species because:

Rats with hippocampal damage are impaired in the ability to:

Describe the neural mechanisms involved in sensitization in aplysia.

According to Hebbian learning,the connection between two neurons is:

Touching a patch of skin on the hand causes a particular neuron in the brain to fire.That particular patch of skin would be part of the neuron's:

Describe how the orienting response has been used to study habituation in infants.

Suppose we habituate the gill-withdrawal reflex in aplysia by repeatedly touching the siphon.If the habituation is homosynaptic,which of the following would occur?

The hippocampus:

Habituation and sensitization in aplysia are explained well by which theory?

Studies in which wasps' potential landmarks were removed demonstrated that:

Describe the neural mechanisms involved in habituation in aplysia.

In a word-stem completion task,people are

People are generally better at distinguishing individuals belonging to racial groups that they frequently encounter than individuals belonging to racial groups they don't interact with .This is an example of: