1) How is depression described in terms of instrumental conditioning principles? What parallels are there between animal models of learned helplessness and depression in humans.

2) Describe, in terms of both classical  and instrumental conditioning, the experiment where a dog is trained to jump over a barrier to get food only when a light is turned on

3) What sort of associative and non-associative changes occur in the motor cortex of the cat after eyeblink conditioning procedures result in eye blink in response to a previously neutral tone. Is this sort of result observed in other areas of the proposed engram? Where?  Would habituation play any role in such a scenario? Why or Why not.

4) Discuss the details of a paradigm used to  investigate the engram associated with  the conditioning of non-specific responses.
Was conditioning possible?

5) What three functions do motivational states serve?

6) How can appetitive motivational states be induced in the absence of actual tissue 'needs'?

7) What is the process shown below? A-G represent molecules involved in the process, label them.

8) What structures are involved in the retention as opposed to the storage of memories.  Cite and explain one experiment that supports your claim.

9) Woody concluded that the neocortex was the site that eyeblink conditioning information is stored while Thompson says it is the cerebellum.  What might account for the different conclusions?

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