Week 4 Neuroscience

If you repeatedly squirt water at a sea slug’s siphon, the slug will retract its gill less and less. What is this finding NOT an example of?

• Habituation

• Associative Learning

• Non-associative learning

• Single stimulus learning

The cerebellum is important for conditioning the eye-blink reflex and other simple conditioning in rodents and humans. 

• true

• false

LTP (a stable and enduring increase in the effectiveness of synapses following repeated strong stimulation) stands for: 

• Long term parking

• Longitudinal tetanus potentiality

• Long term potentiation

• Locational terminal putamen

Removal of the hippocampus and nearby cortex left Patient H.M. unable to learn new skills, such as mirror tracing, showing that his nondeclarative memory was no longer intact. 

• true

• false

Which is NOT one of the three steps the brain must perform in order to succeed in the undertaking of memory according to the computer science metaphor of memory provided by Corkin?

• The brain must encode information

• The brain must delete excess information

• The brain must store information

• The brain must retrieve information

Name the CS in the eyeblink classic conditioning procedure: 

• The tone

• The air puff

• The eye-blink in response to the tone

• The eye-blink in response to the air puff

What are two ways fear can be measured in rats during a fear conditioning procedure?

• Potentiated attack and freeze

• Potentiated startle and freeze

• Potentiated startle and perspiration

• Potentiated flight and freeze

According to Prof. Knowlton, which form of emotional conditioning is most well studied?

• fear

• joy

• sadness

• anger

Pavlov's experiments in training a dog to salivate at the ringing of a bell instead of just at the sight of food is an example of what kind of learning process?

• classical conditioning

• operant conditioning

• operant training

• sound-induced stimulus training (SIST)

The hippocampus is thought to be responsible for the fear-potentiated startle response. 

• true

• false