Exam 12: Learning, Memory, and Intelligence

 What type of deficiency causes Korsakoff's syndrome?

 Damage to the ____ impairs performance on the delayed matching-to-sample and delayed nonmatching-to-sample tasks.

 The most likely cause of the brain damage typical of Alzheimer's disease is due to a ____.

 What area of the brain is particularly important for coding spatial information?

 Humans differ from chimpanzees in two genes responsible for ______ transport.

 Individuals with Korsakoff's syndrome are similar to people with damage to the ____.

 In order to evolve large brains, our ancestors had to reduce the energy spent on other functions. Which of the following is not hypothesized to be an energy-saving adaption?

 Describe three adaptations of our ancient ancestors that allowed them to evolve a larger brain.

 What is believed to be the likely cause of plaques?

 Lashley trained rats on a variety of mazes, then made deep cuts in their cortexes. He found that the cuts produced ____.

 Producing long-term potentiation of cells in the mammalian nervous system requires ____.

 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.

 A person with damage to their cerebellum may experience several problems, including ____.

 Donald Hebb (1949) distinguished between two types of memory that he called

 After his surgery, H.M. had the most difficulty with ____.

 When Pamella was first learning to drive, she had to think about it step-by-step. Now, she can drive automatically thanks to the work of her _____.

 Georgette only remembers a small amount of what happened in her first few years of life. She has _____.

 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 ____.

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

 Habituation and sensitization differ depending upon whether ____.