Sample Questions.

1. What neurological prolem occurs when a protein kinase blocker is injected into an animal before training it to run a maze for food?
2. List the structures that seem to be involved in procedural learning? Also, list those that do not seem to play a role in such learning?
3. Some have spectulated on the fact that instrumental conditioning is a special case of classical conditioning. If this is so then what is the CS and US for a typical bar press for food instrumental task?
4. What is the biochemical explanation for the fact htat conditioning only occur when the CS precedes the US.
5. What areas of the brain are consistently damaged in amnesics?
6. Explain the "dual process" of habituation.
7. What are the two methods for increasing the capacity of short term memory?
8. Use an example to demonstrate that connections in the brain can change.
9. What is the difference between specific and non-specific conditioned responses?
10. What are the major differences between declarative and procedural memory? Give examples.
11. What are the conditions with respect to 1.timing of CS, US; 2. occurence of CS, US; and 3. intervals used between trials for classical conditioning to occur.
12. How does STM and LTM differ in terms of how information is encoded in each memory system?
13. What are two problems that must be controlled for when performing habituation experiments? Are these problems relevant to other experimental paradigms?
14. Who conducted experiments in humans that involved direct stimulation of the brain? How was this person able to justify doing these experiments? What was discovered from these experiments?
15. Describe the stages in the pathway for a tone CS as discussed for the eyeblink conditioning in the cat.
16. Describe priming and discuss what is demonstrates about amnesics ability to learn or not to learn.
17. What is the difference between contingency and contiguity?
18. What is the theory that tries to explain childhood amnesia?
19. Give a real world example of the evolutionary significance of habituation?
20. Describe a neurobiological experiment that suggests the existence of two separate memory storage capacities.
21. Why was Darwin important to the study of learning and memory?

1. When conditionin two novel CS's simultaneously the fact that conditioning occurs to one of the two but not to the other is described as ___________.
2. __________ memory may have different storage spaces for each modality.