Practice Quiz Learning And Memory
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- 1.Which of the following is true of learning?
- A.
Learning and Memory are synonymous.
- B.
Memories are related to the electrical activity of the brain.
- C.
Learning involves modification of the nervous system by experiences.
- D.
Experiences are stored in the brain, in seperate folders, like that of a file cabinet.
- E.
Learning is possible in the absence of memory.
- 2.In classical conditioning, an organism
- A.
Is able to recognize objects by the sounds they make.
- B.
Identifies and categorizes objects.
- C.
Shows a species-typical behavior in response to a previously unimportant stimulus.
- D.
Learns the consequences of a specific behavior.
- E.
Forms an association between a response and a stimulus.
- 3.The ________ states that a weak synapse will be strengthened if its activation occurs at the same time that the postsynaptic neuron fires.
- A.
All-or-none principle
- B.
Law of effect
- C.
Perforant path hypothesis
- D.
Hebb rule
- E.
Law of summation
- 4.Relational learning involves changes in
- A.
Connections between different regions of the sensory association cortex.
- B.
A motor system.
- C.
Connections between a sensory system and a motor system.
- D.
A single sensory system.
- E.
Contingencies between a response and a subsequent stimulus.
- 5.Which of the following is true of LTP?
- A.
LTP is the cellular basis for episodic memory.
- B.
LTP occurs independently of synaptic activity.
- C.
LTP reflects a persistent temporal summation of postsynaptic potentials.
- D.
LTP can be produced in isolated hippocampal slices.
- E.
LTP typically lasts up to one hour.
- 6.Patient H.M. shows deficits in motor learning, perceptual learning, and stimulus-response learning.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.Implicit memory is another name for nondeclarative memory.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.Behavior is reinforced by treatments that release dopamine in the nucleus accumbens.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.The NMDA receptor controls the activity of a sodium channel.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 10.Receptors for ____________ are involved in LTP.
- A.
Dopamine
- B.
Glutamate
- C.
Acetylcholine
- D.
Serotonin
- E.
GABA
- 11.
- A.
More postsynaptic NMDA receptors
- B.
More postsynaptic AMPA receptors
- C.
Fewer synaptic connections
- D.
More postsynaptic GABA contacts
- E.
Fewer presynaptic GABA contacts
- 12.Which of the following is a strong candidate to act as a retrograde messenger from the dendrite to the terminal button?
- A.
Glutamate.
- B.
Nitric oxide.
- C.
Nitrous oxide.
- D.
Norepinephrine.
- E.
NMDA.
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