Test
QUESTION 1
1. The amygdala is directly involved in:
A.
Eye-lid conditioning
B.
Fear conditioning
C.
D.
Skill learning
1 points
QUESTION 2
1. The serial position curves of amnesic patients, compared with those of normal subjects, show:
A.
Impairment of the primacy effect
B.
Impairment of the recency effect
C.
A rather flat curve
D.
Similar depression throughout the curve
1 points
QUESTION 3
1. Studies of homing pigeons suggest that memory for spatial location is related especially to the:
A.
Amygdala
B.
Caudate nucleus
C.
Hippocampus
D.
Extrastriate visual cortex
1 points
QUESTION 4
1. The increase of cortical thickness with enriched experience is probably mainly due to the increased:
A.
Branching of dendrites
B.
Fluid content of cortical tissue
C.
Size of synaptic junctions
D.
Number of dendritic spines
1 points
QUESTION 5
1. NMDA receptors induce LTP:
A.
When glutamate stimulates them
B.
Only if Mg2+ ions move
C.
By allowing Na+ to enter the dendritic spine
D.
By blocking CREB within the postsynaptic cell