QUIZ 1

Part 1. True/False

  1. Pavlov investigated the manner in which cats learn the impact of their actions.F
  2. Patients with dissociated amnesia have shed light on the understanding of how we learn.T
  3. The microscopic approach to learning presumes that changes in synaptic connections occur during learning and that these changes represent memories.T
  4. Lashely demonstrated that the memory for running a maze could be localized to a very specific region of the brain.F
  5. Cajal was one of those responsible for demonstrating that nerves used electricity to propagate information.F
  6. The strength of connections between two cells can be modified by brief periods of high frequency activity.T
  7. At the turn of the century Cajal suggested that learning could be achieved by changing the strength of synaptic connectioins.T
  8. Trace conditioning is the most powerful and quickest way to get a CS to elicit a CR.F

Part 2.

Match the terms in the first column with the term in the second column
that best describes it. All terms in column 2 are used once.
16 Edward Lee Thorndike 1.First looked for measures of the acquisition and recall
of information in the human mind.
4 Instrumental Conditioning 2.Memories that are labile and short lasting
6 Sensitization 3.Won the Nobel Prize with Cajal for staining tissue from the CNS.
3 Golgi 4.Learning the impact of actions
1 Hermann Ebbinghaus 5.Proposed a model for memory containing a primary
and secondary storehouse for information.
2 Short term memory 6.Augmentation of a response to a stimulus, following
presentation of the same or another stimulus
10 Associative Learning 7.Respondent Conditioning
9 Latent Inhibition 8.Fact memory (knowing that)
5 William James 9.The decrease in the associability of a stimulus
due to the organisms preexposure to that
stimulus
11 Galen 10.Learning of relations among events.
12 Rene Descartes 11.First suggested that the brain controlled behavior.
7 Classical Conditioning 12.Portrayed man in a similar light as animals except that
man had a rational soul.
13 Karl Lashley 13.Did some of the first experiments addressing the question
of where memories are stored.
17 Mazes 14.Name given to memory that is not impared in amnesics.
8 Declarative Memory 15.Formulated the hypothesis that memories are stored in cell assemblies.
14 Procedural 16.Formalized the idea that consequences affect subsequent behavior.
15 Donald Hebb 17.A paradigm for investigating complex learning.

PART 3. (more than one answer may apply)

  1. When using a compound stimulus composed of a previously conditioned CS and a new CS, the lack of conditioning to the new stimuli is refered to as _____B______.

      2. A. Differential Contingency

      B. Blocking

      C. Overshadowing

      D. Conditioned Inhibition
  2. The simple fact that a CS is associated with a US is refered to as _____B________.

      3. A. Differential Contingency

      B. Contiguity

      C. Overshadowing

      D. Blocking
  3. If the P(US/CS)>P(US/no CS) it can be said that _____A or B___________ exists.

      4. A. a Differential Contingency

      B. Contiguity

      C. Overshadowing

      D. Habituation

  4. What types of tasks are not impaired in humans who have damage to their temporal lobes? C
    5. A. Being able to say what happened
    yesterday.
    		 B. Being able to tell someone the color of
    a recent visitors hair.
    		 C. Being able to do a jigsaw
    puzzle faster the second time
    they're asked to complete it.
  5. Classical conditioning is a paradigm where the ....B or C.
    6. A.animal's behavior dictates
    the consequences.    		 B. animal is motivated through
    aversive stimuli.    		 C. animal can be anesthetised.

PART 4. (on another sheet of paper)

  1. If a US (shock) supports an associative strength of 70 units what does the Rescorla-Wagner theory predict about the learning curves for a CS that is not very salient (.2) verses a CS that is very salient (.8).Give values and graph them (graph paper is not necessary).
  2. The results of the primacy and recency effects have been used to ________ .
  3. Describe a proposed neural mechanism that could explain STM as described by cognitive psychologists.
  4. Write two questions on material that we covered that was not tested. Supply the answers.

PART 5. (help me out here)

1. Give me your opinion on the textbook/Readings. Good, bad, why, why not?

2. Is there a topic we've covered that you would like to go into more depth?

3. Were there some topics you found uninteresting?

4. Were there some topics you thought shouldn't be included in this course?


Albert Borroni
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