COGS 17 HOMEWORK 9 QUESTIONS
AND ALL CORRECT ANSWERS.
Learning - Answer A) Classical Conditioning involves developing associations between
stimuli. True
B) Operant Conditioning involves developing associations between responses. False
C) Hebbian Synapses are those in which a circuit has developed, though experience, such that it
is easier to activate. True
D) Conditioning depends on Temporal Contiguity, which means that the items being associated
must co-occur. True
E) The "Law of Effect" states that a behavior repeatedly associated with negative reinforcement
is likely to be repeated. False
Long Term Potentiation: Is the majority of glutamate receptors in a given area have Mg+
blocking their receptor sites an LTP? - Answer no
Long Term Potentiation: Neurons involved have dense dendritic branches? - Answer yes
Long Term Potentiation: A decrease in the levels of retrograde messengers. - Answer no
Long Term Potentiation: Perforation of the terminal buttons of pre-synaptic cells. - Answer
yes
Long Term Potentiation: Significant rates of metabolic activity convert NMDA sites to AMPA
sites. - Answer yes
Long Term Potentiation: Neurogenesis - Answer yes
Hippocampus - Answer The brain area most implicated in spatial memory
Hippocampus - Answer larger in seed-caching birds than in those who do not store food for
winter.
Place Cells - Answer One class of neurons that show neurogenesis during the learning of a
new spatial layout
Hippocampus - Answer Damage to the _______impairs the ability to navigate, to recognize
familiar locations, and to read a map.
, The ______is also implicated in mapping both your praxic and large-scaled environments. -
Answer Parietal Cortex
The representation of a learned territory is sometimes called a - Answer Cognitive Map
A rat in an "F maze" learns to go to the same arm of that maze for which it was rewarded on the
previous trial. - Answer F
If the Lateral Interpositus in the Cerebellum is cooled down, rabbits still can learn a Tone+Eye
Blink association. - Answer F
An MNDA-Agonist acting in the Striatum will interfere with a rat's recall of cued procedures. -
Answer F
The Amygdala plays an active role in procedural memory. - Answer T
If the Red Nucleus is cooled down, a rabbit will not show the blink response during training in
which a tone co-occurs with a puff of air to the eye. - Answer T
The Basal Ganglia is not typically implicated in procedural memory. - Answer F
The cerebellum plays a greater role in procedural memory than the hippocampus does. -
Answer T
Declarative Memory is for cued facts or personal episodes. - Answer T
The Hippocampus and Cerebellum are both implicated in Declarative Memory. - Answer F
H.M., the epilepsy patient who underwent radical brain surgery, thereafter suffered from
retrograde amnesia. - Answer F
Damage to the Hippocampus can lead to impairment of performance in a rat that previously
learned to "match-to-sample". - Answer T
A vitamin B1 deficiency, associated with prolonged alcohol abuse, can lead to anterograde
amnesia. - Answer T
AND ALL CORRECT ANSWERS.
Learning - Answer A) Classical Conditioning involves developing associations between
stimuli. True
B) Operant Conditioning involves developing associations between responses. False
C) Hebbian Synapses are those in which a circuit has developed, though experience, such that it
is easier to activate. True
D) Conditioning depends on Temporal Contiguity, which means that the items being associated
must co-occur. True
E) The "Law of Effect" states that a behavior repeatedly associated with negative reinforcement
is likely to be repeated. False
Long Term Potentiation: Is the majority of glutamate receptors in a given area have Mg+
blocking their receptor sites an LTP? - Answer no
Long Term Potentiation: Neurons involved have dense dendritic branches? - Answer yes
Long Term Potentiation: A decrease in the levels of retrograde messengers. - Answer no
Long Term Potentiation: Perforation of the terminal buttons of pre-synaptic cells. - Answer
yes
Long Term Potentiation: Significant rates of metabolic activity convert NMDA sites to AMPA
sites. - Answer yes
Long Term Potentiation: Neurogenesis - Answer yes
Hippocampus - Answer The brain area most implicated in spatial memory
Hippocampus - Answer larger in seed-caching birds than in those who do not store food for
winter.
Place Cells - Answer One class of neurons that show neurogenesis during the learning of a
new spatial layout
Hippocampus - Answer Damage to the _______impairs the ability to navigate, to recognize
familiar locations, and to read a map.
, The ______is also implicated in mapping both your praxic and large-scaled environments. -
Answer Parietal Cortex
The representation of a learned territory is sometimes called a - Answer Cognitive Map
A rat in an "F maze" learns to go to the same arm of that maze for which it was rewarded on the
previous trial. - Answer F
If the Lateral Interpositus in the Cerebellum is cooled down, rabbits still can learn a Tone+Eye
Blink association. - Answer F
An MNDA-Agonist acting in the Striatum will interfere with a rat's recall of cued procedures. -
Answer F
The Amygdala plays an active role in procedural memory. - Answer T
If the Red Nucleus is cooled down, a rabbit will not show the blink response during training in
which a tone co-occurs with a puff of air to the eye. - Answer T
The Basal Ganglia is not typically implicated in procedural memory. - Answer F
The cerebellum plays a greater role in procedural memory than the hippocampus does. -
Answer T
Declarative Memory is for cued facts or personal episodes. - Answer T
The Hippocampus and Cerebellum are both implicated in Declarative Memory. - Answer F
H.M., the epilepsy patient who underwent radical brain surgery, thereafter suffered from
retrograde amnesia. - Answer F
Damage to the Hippocampus can lead to impairment of performance in a rat that previously
learned to "match-to-sample". - Answer T
A vitamin B1 deficiency, associated with prolonged alcohol abuse, can lead to anterograde
amnesia. - Answer T
