Learning and Memory
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1. Habituation has been observed in worms, sea slugs(aplysia), frogs, rats, chimpanzees, and humans.

True
False

2. Which of the following is not one of the 9 charectoristics of Habituation developed by Thompson and Spencer?

The response will habituate to an absolute lower level if a weaker stimulus is used.
Dishabituation
The higher the stimulus frequency used to habituate the response the slower the response habituates
Repeated series of habituation traning lead ot more rapid habituation.

3.The concept of source amnesia suggests that memory is encoded without respect to prior knowledge.

True
False

4. Who first suggested that human memory was subserved by physical traces in the brain that were produced by activity-dependent facilitation of connections in these traces.

Sechenov
Costa ben Luca
Hebb
Descartes

5. Who was one of the first people to suggest that mental function might be localized to the brain:

Aristotle
Galen
Descartes
Skinner


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