Learning, Memory, And Intelligence

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Nerve Cells and Nerve Impulses
Synapses
Anatomy and Research Methods
Genetics, Evolution, Development, and Plasticity
Vision
Other Sensory Systems
Movement
Wakefulness and Sleep
Internal Regulation
Reproductive Behaviors
Emotional Behaviors
Learning, Memory, and Intelligence
Cognitive Functions
Psychological Disorders

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Question 1

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McKenzie is using classical conditioning to teach her dog to sit by giving the dog a treat each time she sits.

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Question 2

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

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Question 3

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Professor Brown told her students that Lashley's search for the engram was based on the false assumption that the cerebellum was the best place to search for an engram.

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Question 4

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Eye-blink conditioning depends on the lateral interpositus nucleus.

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Question 5

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Information in short-term memory is lost more easily than that in long term memory.

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Question 6

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

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Question 7

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

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Question 8

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Hippocampal damage impairs spatial memory.

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Question 9

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Professor Diggs tells her class that compared to overall brain size, brain-to-body ratio is the best correlate of intelligence.

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Question 10

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A distinctive symptom of Korsakoff's syndrome is confabulation, in which patients guess to fill in memory gaps.

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Question 11

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

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Question 12

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

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Question 13

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Pavlov presented a sound followed by meat in his experiments. Gradually, the sound came to elicit salivation. The sound in this experiment would be considered the ____ .

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unconditioned stimulus

unconditioned response

conditioned stimulus

conditioned response

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Question 14

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Pavlov presented a sound followed by meat in his experiments. Gradually, the sound came to elicit salivation. The salivation to the meat in this experiment was the ____ .

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unconditioned stimulus

unconditioned response

conditioned stimulus

conditioned response

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Question 15

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Jeramy's cat always purrs when she eats her food. Each day, Jeramy would use the can opener to open the cat food and after a while, he found that his cat would purr each time he used the can opener even if he didn't give her food. What happened?

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His cat has amnesia.

His cat learned via classical conditioning.

His cat learned via instrumental conditioning.

His cat has developed LTD.

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Question 16

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What should be the usual relationship between the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus in classical conditioning?

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The conditioned stimulus should be presented first.

The unconditioned stimulus should be presented first.

They should be presented simultaneously.

It depends on what each stimulus is.

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Question 17

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In instrumental conditioning, reinforcement is ____ .

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any food that the organism likes

a stimulus that produces a reflexive response

an event that decreases the future probability of a response

an event that increases the future probability of a response

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Question 18

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In instrumental conditioning, punishment is a(n) ____ .

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stimulus that produces a reflexive response

event that decreases the future probability of a response

event that increases the future probability of a response

event that prevents a response

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Question 19

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Which action is most difficult to classify as classical or instrumental conditioning?

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Pressing a lever to get food

Pressing a lever to escape shock

Salivating after a sound previously paired with food

Song learning by male birds

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Question 20

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

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a reinforcer

a punishment

a conditioned stimulus

an unconditioned stimulus

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