The Ultimate Learning and Memory Trivia!

1. Patient H.M.

Is unable to learn new information

Is unable to count numbers from 1 to 10

Is unable to speak coherent sentences

Suffers from a motor tic of the eye

Underwent surgery in 1998 to treat aphasia

2. The ______ states that a weak synapse will be strengthened if its activation occurs at the same time that the postsynaptic neuron fires.

All-or-nothing principle

Law of effect

Perforant path hypothesis

Hebb rule

Law of summation

3. The most profound symptom of Korsakoff's syndrome is

Anterograde amnesia

Total amnesia

Combative behavior

Delirium tremens

Auditory and visual hallucinations

4. You are listening to a song on the radio while doing your homework, the phone rings, and your mother has called to tell you that your favorite uncle has died after being hit by a car. Three months later, you again hear the same song and suddenly feel very sad. In this example, the unconditional response is

Your feelings about your uncle before he died

Listening to the song

Your feeling about the song prior to the phone call

The voice of your mother

Feeling sad

5. The NMDA receptor is unusual in that it is -dependent and ___ - dependent

Ligand; ion

Neurotransmitter; hormone

Neurotransmitter; voltage

Na+; Mg2+

Ca2+; Cl-

6. Your best friend Mark is bitten as he tries to pet your Doberman pet dog. Eventually, Mark stops petting your dog. This is an example of:

Positive reinforcement

Classical conditioning

Relational learning

Instrumental conditioning

Perceptual learning

7. People with anterograde amnesia

Show impairment of perceptual memory

Show impairments in motor memory

Show impairment of complex relational learning

Are unable to recall childhood experiences

Show facilitated stimulus-response learning

8. Which of the following is true of LTP (long-term potentiation)

LTP is the cellular basis for episodic memory

LTP occurs independently of synaptic activity

LTP reflects a persistent temporal summation of postsynaptic potentials

LTP can be produced in isolated hippocampal slices

LTP typically lasts up to one hour

9. The ability to recall a series of events is referred to as

Observational learning

Spatial learning

Perceptual learning

Episodic learning

Serial memory

10. Inactivation of type II calcium calmodulin kinase would be expected to

Promote the creation of new NMDA receptors

Promost the formation of new memories

Block the entry of calcium into the postsynaptic cell

Block the formation of long-term potentiation

Facilitate the production of long-term potentiation

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