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To induce LTP, _____ must enter the cell through NMDA receptors….
To induce LTP, _____ must enter the cell through NMDA receptors.
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Ca2+
BDNF
Cl-
K+
Flag question: Question 17Question 172 pts
For H.M., what best describes his memory deficit?
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Severe anterograde amnesia
Severe retrograde amnesia
Severe impairments of short-term memory
All of these choices are true
Flag question: Question 18Question 182 pts
Alzheimer’s patients have impairments in ____ memory but are relatively unimpaired in ____ memory.
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short-term; long-term
implicit; explicit
explicit; implicit
fear; semantic
Flag question: Question 19Question 192 pts
Which statement describes the genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease?
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Having two copies of the APOE e4 allele confers the highest risk.
All individuals with Alzheimer’s desease have at least one copy of the APOE e4 allele.
There are no APOE alleles that decrease risk.
All of these answers are true.
Flag question: Question 20Question 202 pts
Clinical trials that attempt to manipulate reconsolidating to treat disorders such as PTSD commonly use the drug _______.
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propranolol
valium
curare
ketamine
Flag question: Question 21Question 212 pts
_____ cells fire in many locations in the environment, helping to establish a spatial coordinate system.
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Grid cells
Head direction cells
Context cells
Place cells
Flag question: Question 22Question 222 pts
Which of the following is NOT an example of implicit memory?
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You have not been on a bicycle for almost 10 years, but you can still ride one.
You have learned to associate a tone with a puff of air to your eye that causes an eyeblink.
You figured out a word in your crossword puzzle more quickly because you overheard someone say the word this morning at work, even though you do not remember actually hearing it.
You remember the day that your coach taught you how to properly catch a baseball.
Flag question: Question 23Question 232 pts
What can we conclude from the studies of London taxi drivers?
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The experience of training to become a driver results in an increase in the size of the hippocampus.
Those individuals with a smaller hipocampus prior to training tended to be most successful in becoming drivers.
The experience of training to become a driver results in a smaller hippocampus.
There is no difference in the size of the hippocampus between trainees that were successful or unsuccessful at becoming drivers.
Flag question: Question 24Question 242 pts
The standard model of systems consolidation states:
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that memories become hippocampus independent over time.
that memories become more dependent on the hippocampus over time.
that all memories are equally distributed between the hippocampus and cortex.
that all memories are stored in the hypothalamus.
Flag question: Question 25Question 252 pts
Reconsolidation is:
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a long-lasting increase in synaptic effectiveness after high-frequency stimulation.
the linkage of two unrelated stimuli to produce a behavior.
the process of stabilizing a memory trace after learning.
the process of restabilizing a memory trace after the memory is revisited/reactivated.
Flag question: Question 26Question 262 pts
Activity of single neurons in the _____ was shown to represent memory of a stimulus in the delayed matching task.
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prefrontal cortex
occipital lobe
temporal lobe
striatum
Flag question: Question 27Question 272 pts
In comparing brain activity between skilled and nonmusicians in a rhythm judging task, it was found that:
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skilled musicians had equal amounts of activity in both hemispheres, whereas nonmusicians had greater amounts of activity in the right hemisphere.
skilled musicians had greater amounts of activity in the right hemisphere, whereas nonmusicians had equal amounts of activity in both hemispheres.
skilled musicians had greater amounts of activity in the left hemisphere, whereas nonmusicians had equal amounts of activity in both hemispheres..
skilled musicians had greater amounts of activity in the right hemisphere, whereas nonmusicians had greater amounts of activity in the left hemisphere.
Flag question: Question 28Question 282 pts
In one of the lecture videos I asked you to we participate in a task that shows attention is in part processing some aspects of information, and in part suppressing other aspects. This task was the ______.
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Stroop test
delayed matching to sample task
the P50 suppression task
imaginal neglect task
Flag question: Question 29Question 292 pts
What is the difference between someone in a coma and someone in a vegetative state?
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Unlike someone in a coma, patients in a vegetative state have regular sleep/wake patterns.
Individuals in a coma have been shown to be able to respond to verbal commands, something that has never been
demonstrated in individuals in a vegetative state.
There is no difference; the terms refer to the same phenomenon.
Unlike someone in a vegetative state, patients in a coma have sleep/wake patterns.
Flag question: Question 30Question 302 pts
Alex has recently had a stroke in his right parietal lobe. Which of the following is likely to describe the deficits he might have?
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He no longer eats food from the right side of his plate.
He can no longer imagine the left side of his own mental images.
He routinely bumps into things on his right side.
All of the answers are correct.
