Exam 12: Learning, Memory, and Decision Making

What is the memory engram?

The conditioned eye-blink response is a______________.

Why was it suggested that Pavlov's work helped to establish psychology as an objective science?

What are the differences between declarative and procedural memory and what does this mean for people with damage to the hippocampus?

Which of the following changes may be a mechanism of synaptic restructuring?

The long-lasting sensitization of the gill reflex in Aplysia through associative learning depends on _______.

People with highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM) possess ________ compared to normal controls.

B.F. Skinner wrote The Organization of Behavior.

An individual's difficulty in telling the difference between safety and threatening stimuli can be assessed in a procedure known as ________.

In Pavlov's conditioning experiments the unconditioned stimulus was typically _________.

How is the Morris water maze similar to Mishkin and colleague's version of the delayed nonmatching-to-sample task?

A contingency is the probability that a specific outcome will follow a specific response.

While neurogenesis is thought to play a role in learning and memory ___________.

___________ developed operant chambers in which rats pressed levers to receive food pellets.

A subject's performance in distinguishing between safety and threatening stimuli can be assessed by a task known as ________.

Direction cells are found in the ________.

It is thought that the hippocampus of a dolphin is proportionately small compared to the overall size of their brains because ________.

New ________ may indeed be more difficult to form than others in old age.

Determining the distance to a stop light is an example of __________.

Place cells are found in the ___________.