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PP Final
Physiological Psychology Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is it called when you have an impairment in forming new memories? | Anterograde amnesia |
| What is it called when you have an inability to remember events prior to impairment? | Retrograde amnesia |
| What is the process in which the brain forms a more or less permanent physical representation of a memory? | Consolidation |
| What is the process of accessing stored memories? Or, in other words, the act of remembering? | Retrieval |
| Where are Place Cells found? | The Hippocampus |
| What type of memory involved learning that results in memories of facts, people, and events that a person can verbalize or declare? | Declarative memory |
| What type of memory involves memories for behaviors, like procedural or skills learning, emotional learning, and stimulus-response conditioning? | Nondeclarative memory |
| What type of memory provides a temporary "register" for information while it is being used? | Working memory |
| What is the Hebb Rule? | If an axon of a presynaptic neuron is active while the postsynaptic neuron is firing, the synapse between them will be strengthened |
| What is the persistent strengthening of synapses that result from simultaneous activation of presynaptic neurons and postsynaptic neurons? | Long-term potentiation |
| What is a decrease in the strength of synapses that occurs when stimulation of presynaptic neurons is insufficient to activate the postsynaptic neurons? | Long-term depression |
| What is it called when a weak synapse and a strong synapse on the same postsynaptic neuron are active simultaneously, the weak synapse being potentiated? | Associative long-term potentiation |
| What are the outgrowths from dendrites that partially bridge the synaptic cleft and make the synapse more sensitive? | Dendritic spines |
| What is the substantial loss of memory and other cognitive abilities? | Dementia |
| What is the disorder that is characterized by progressive brain deterioration and impaired memory and other cognitive abilities? | Alzheimer's |
| What are the clumps of amyloid beta that cluster among axon terminals and interfere with neural transmission? | Plaques |
| What is the formation made by the accumulation of tau inside neurons called? | Neurofibrillary tangles |
| What is associated with the death of brain cells? | Tangles |
| What is it called when an individual with greater cognitive or brain capacity can compensate for brain changes due to aging, brain damage, or disorders such as Alzheimer's? | Reserve hypothesis |
| What is the fabrication of stories and facts to make up for those missing from memories? | Spontaneous confabulation |
| Antegrade amnesia means that the patient has trouble remembering events that occurred | since the brain damage |
| If you are positive you know who the 14th president of the United States is but cannot remember at this very moment, you are having a problem with | retrieval |
| The main neurotransmitter implicated in memory formation is | dopamine |
| If H.M.'s striatum had also been damaged, he would also not have remembered | skills learned after his surgery |
| In the course of adding a long column of entries in your checkbook, you have to carry a 6 to the next column. If you forget the number in the process, you're having a problem with | working memory |
| The researcher sounds a tone and then delivers a puff of air to your eye. After several seconds, the tone alone causes you to blink. This behavior is best explained by | associative LTP |
| Synaptic changes during learning involve | activation of proteins, an increased number of dendritic spines, and an increased number of receptors |
| When do most of the genes linked to memory consolidation increase their activity? | During sleep |
| Memories are vulnerable to the insertion of "false facts" through suggestions or ideas that fill in the gaps. This usually occurs during the process of | reconsolidation |
| When researchers injected anisomycin, which blocks protein synthesis, into the brains of mice 2 weeks after fear conditioning, the results demonstrated that | memories are particularly vulnerable during recall |
| The aged brain is characterized by substantial ______ throughout the cortex | None of the above |
| Alzheimer's disease is most closely associated with | plaques and tangles |
| The feature most common between Alzheimer's disease and Korsakoff syndrome is the | symptoms |
| What were H.M.'s symptoms referred to as? | Anterograde amnesia and retrograde amnesia |
| What part of the brain does retrograde amnesia occur in? | Medial temporal lobes |
| What parts of H.M.'s brain were destroyed? | Hippocampus, hippocampal formation, and amygdala |
| What provides the primary output from the hippocampus to other brain areas? | CA1 |
| What two problems did H.M.'s impairment consist of? | Consolidation and retrieval |
| Until a memory is consolidated, it is | fragile |
| What area is active during effortful attempts at retrieval? | Prefrontal area |
| What are is activated during successful retrieval? | Hippocampus |
| What does dopamine do in long-term memory? | Affects consolidation |
| What does naming tools activate? | Premotor cortex |
| What does naming colors activate? | Temporal lobe areas |
| What do spatial memories activate? | Parietal area |
| What do verbal memories activate? | Left frontal lobe |
| You can remember being in class today, where you sat, who was there, and what was discussed. What type of memory is this? | Declarative |
| Learning mirror tracing or how to ride a bicycle or solve the Tower of Hanoi problem. What type of memory is this? | Nondeclarative |
| Researchers studied a patient with damage to both amygdalas and another with damage to both hippocampi. The researchers attempted to condition an emotional response in the patients by sounding a loud boat horn. Who reacted emotionally? | Amygdala damage |
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