Worksheets2190 Tutorial 10 Learning
Total questions: 7
Worksheet time: 5mins
When researchers implanted electrodes into a person’s hippocampus, they found cells sensitive to what?
Color
Location
Temperature
Rhyming
The basal ganglia are primarily responsible for which type of learning?
Gradually learning habits, based on immediate feedback
Acquiring and storing episodic memories
Memories that people can easily describe in words
Quickly adapting learned behaviors to new circumstances
What is meant by the “specificity” of LTP?
LTP occurs in certain parts of the brain and not others.
Nearly simultaneous stimulation by two or more axons produces LTP more strongly than does repeated stimulation by just one axon.
LTP occurs only at the synapses that have been activated.
LTP occurs only at glutamate synapses
What is one of the symptoms that a patient with hippocampal amnesia has?
Mood disorders
Confabulations
Impairment in working memory
Difficulties in storing episodic information
Anterograde amnesia is loss of memory for ________, whereas retrograde amnesia is loss of memory for ________.
events after the damage . . . events before the damage
factual information . . . personal experiences
events before the damage . . . events after the damage
personal experiences . . . factual information
In non-associative learning, the activation of the excitatory interneurons leads to ____; the activation of the inhibitory interneurons leads to ____.
decreased firing of motor neurons; decreased firing of sensory neurons
habituation; sensitization
increased firing of sensory neurons; increased firing of motor neurons
sensitization; habituation
Why does the patient's response to the researchers become increasingly positive, despite his inability to recall them due to the hippocampal amnesia?
His hippocampus is gradually recovering and records the feelings to the researchers.
His temporal lobe is not totally damaged.
There still is classical conditioning in his amygdala.
He has been habituated to the visit of the researchers by non-associative learning.
