Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

A)  a reinforcer 
B)  a punishment 
C)  a conditioned stimulus 
D)  an unconditioned stimulus

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

A)  tremors 
B)  seizures 
C)  an accumulation of tau tangles 
D)  confabulation

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

A)  sensitization 
B)  habituation 
C)  classical conditioning 
D)  imprinting

Question 5

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 ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  specificity 
B)  cooperativity 
C)  associativity 
D)  NMDA

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

A)  cingulate gyrus 
B)  occipital lobe 
C)  dorsomedial thalamus 
D)  cerebellum

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

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 ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  cerebellum 
B)  hypothalamus 
C)  thalamus 
D)  hippocampus

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

A)  recent events than events of the remote past 
B)  what is happening at a given moment than general principles 
C)  skills than facts 
D)  verbal information than visual information

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Lashley's term "engram" refers to ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  a drug that facilitates learning 
B)  the physical representation of learning 
C)  a procedure that improved memory 
D)  an automatic response to a sensory stimulus

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Korsakoff's syndrome 
B)  Parkinson's disease 
C)  Huntington's disease 
D)  Alzheimer's disease

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

A)  temporary loss of memory; permanent loss of memory 
B)  loss of short-term memory; loss of long-term memory 
C)  inability to form new memories; loss of memory for old events 
D)  loss of memory for old events; inability to form new memories

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Priming 
B)  Explicit memory 
C)  Procedural memory 
D)  Implicit memory

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

A)  instrumental conditioning 
B)  classical conditioning 
C)  equipotentiality 
D)  mass action

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

A)  there is one major contributing gene 
B)  there are many contributing genes 
C)  there are different genes depending on a person's sex 
D)  there are different genes depending on a person's age

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

A)  loses its motivation to find the platform 
B)  cannot remember how to swim 
C)  has difficulty remembering where the platform is from trial to trial 
D)  develops a water phobia

Question 19

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 _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  place cells 
B)  grid cells 
C)  time cells 
D)  location cells

Question 20

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

Accepted Answer

A)  fish 
B)  rats 
C)  monkeys 
D)  cockroaches

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 ____.