Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

A)  jogging; walking 
B)  reading; writing 
C)  carrying on a conversation; listening to the radio 
D)  juggling; explaining the sequence of moves in juggling

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

"All parts of the cortex contribute equally to complex behaviors such as learning" defines:

Accepted Answer

A)  operant conditioning. 
B)  classical conditioning. 
C)  equipotentiality. 
D)  mass action.

Question 4

Why did some experimenters in the 1960's and 1970's grind up the brains of some rats and inject extracts into other rats?

Accepted Answer

A)  It was believed that the extra neurotransmitter would speed up learning. 
B)  It was believed that memories could be transferred in this way. 
C)  They were interested in brain transplants, and wanted to see if the material would be rejected. 
D)  Studies of human cannibals had found extraordinary memory abilities.

Question 5

Korsakoff's patients and Alzheimer's patients have 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 6

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Deliberate recall of information that one recognizes as a memory is termed:

Accepted Answer

A)  priming. 
B)  explicit memory. 
C)  procedural memory. 
D)  declarative memory.

Question 8

Korsakoff's patients perform better on tasks of implicit memory than explicit memory.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

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 10

Thiamine is necessary for the proper metabolism of glucose.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

A rat must swim through murky water to find a rest platform that is just under the surface in the:

Accepted Answer

A)  radial maze. 
B)  Morris search task. 
C)  configurable learning task. 
D)  delayed matching-to-sample task.

Question 12

Plaques and tangles in the cerebral cortex are characteristic of people with:

Accepted Answer

A)  retrograde amnesia. 
B)  anterograde amnesia. 
C)  Korsakoff's syndrome. 
D)  Alzheimer's disease.

Question 13

Which of the following is NOT a way in which CaMKII facilitates LTP?

Accepted Answer

A)  Dendrites build more AMPA receptors. 
B)  Neurons produce more NMDA receptors. 
C)  Individual AMPA receptors become more active. 
D)  Neurons decrease dendritic branching.

Question 14

Studies on ____ help clarify the distinctions among different kinds of memory and enable us to explore the mechanisms of memory.

Accepted Answer

A)  dementia 
B)  amnesia 
C)  epilepsy 
D)  stroke

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Eye-blink conditioning depends on the lateral interpositus nucleus.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

The hippocampus is especially important for which kind of memory?

Accepted Answer

A)  procedural 
B)  episodic 
C)  short-term 
D)  implicit

Question 18

Alzheimer's patients have better explicit memory than implicit memory.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

A)  procedural; explicit 
B)  explicit; procedural 
C)  declarative; implicit 
D)  implicit; procedural

Question 20

Drugs used to treat Alzheimer's disease affect activity of the cortex by enhancing the effects of acetylcholine.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 13: The Biology of Learning and Memory

Procedural memory is to as declarative memory is to .

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

"All parts of the cortex contribute equally to complex behaviors such as learning" defines:

Why did some experimenters in the 1960's and 1970's grind up the brains of some rats and inject extracts into other rats?

Korsakoff's patients and Alzheimer's patients have better memory for:

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

Deliberate recall of information that one recognizes as a memory is termed:

Korsakoff's patients perform better on tasks of implicit memory than explicit memory.

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

Thiamine is necessary for the proper metabolism of glucose.

A rat must swim through murky water to find a rest platform that is just under the surface in the:

Plaques and tangles in the cerebral cortex are characteristic of people with:

Which of the following is NOT a way in which CaMKII facilitates LTP?

Studies on ____ help clarify the distinctions among different kinds of memory and enable us to explore the mechanisms of memory.

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

Eye-blink conditioning depends on the lateral interpositus nucleus.

The hippocampus is especially important for which kind of memory?

Alzheimer's patients have better explicit memory than implicit memory.

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

Drugs used to treat Alzheimer's disease affect activity of the cortex by enhancing the effects of acetylcholine.