Exam 13: Learning and Memory

Describe the typical experimental setup and procedure that would be used to produce long-term potentiation (LTP) and explain how this would be assessed using this procedure.

Studies by Schultz and colleagues suggest that release of dopamine within the nucleus accumbens

A rat learns to press a lever when it receives a reinforcing item, such as a food pellet, upon each press. To learn the connection between the lever press and the receipt of the food pellet, the neurotransmitter ___________ is involved.

The induction of long-term potentiation in the hippocampus would be blocked by

In a conditioned emotional response (CER) study, a tone is paired with a foot shock for a rat. After several trials, the tone alone is a CS that can elicit fear emotional responses. Which of the following is true of the anatomy of this fear response?

Describe learning tasks that assess the capacity for perceptual learning, motor learning, and stimulus-response learning.

________ are action potentials that occur along the dendrites of a pyramidal cell in the hippocampus.

The ventral stream of visual association cortex continues into the ________ and carries information relating to ________.

Your cat has associated getting on the counter with getting sprayed by a water bottle. This form of learning is _____________ conditioning.

Video gamers often find that they are able to beat difficult stages that require accurate timing of button pushes after taking a break from the game. This phenomenon supports the fact that

In a delayed matching-to-sample task, participants were shown a face and then were asked to identify which face had been seen previously. In this case, the _______________ was activated in order to choose the correct face.

A key structural change that accompanies long-term potentiation is the

The caudate nucleus and the putamen form the ________.

Long-lasting LTP requires the formation of the protein _______.

Neurogenesis is stimulated within the ______ for tasks that involve relational learning.

Damage to the ________ would be expected to impair instrumental learning in rats.

The pyramidal cells of hippocampal field CA1 are unique in that

Relational learning involves changes in

An instrumental response that produces a favorable consequence

Explain what is meant by a place cell and discuss the role of these cells in spatial memory.