Which brain regions are crucial for declarative memory? Amygdala Medial temporal lobes (hippocampus and parahippocampus) Cerebellum Prefrontal cortex

Medial temporal lobes (hippocampus and parahippocampus)

What type of conditioning involves a person developing a fear of dogs after being bitten by one? Operant conditioning Emotional classical conditioning Observational learning Skeletal classical conditioning

Emotional classical conditioning

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What type of memory refers to memories that can be consciously recalled, such as facts and events?

Which type of memory involves the memory of facts and general knowledge?

What type of memory involves the memory of events?

What type of memory cannot be made explicit and is not flexible?

Which brain regions are crucial for declarative memory?

Knowing the month, date, and year you were born is an example of which type of memory?

What type of actions are purposeful, goal-oriented, and rapidly respond to change?

What type of behaviors are not purposeful or goal-oriented and gradually respond to change?

In Parkinson's Disease, which type of memory is affected due to the degeneration of the striatum?

What type of conditioning involves a person developing a fear of dogs after being bitten by one?

What type of conditioning involves a person learning to blink in response to a tone that precedes a puff of air to the eye?

What is the activation, often unconsciously, of certain associations, thus predisposing one's perception, memory, or response?

In a memory test, you are shown a list of words and later asked to recognize them among other words. What is this process called?

What is the process called when participants are given the beginning of a word and asked to complete it with the first word that comes to mind?

What is the memory retrieval process where a person is given a cue or prompt to help them remember information?

Which brain region is not required for declarative memory or perceptual motor learning?

Patients with amnesia typically have deficits in which types of memory?

In a fear conditioning test, a mouse spends more time frozen in a context that reminds it of being shocked. What do you conclude?

After many training sessions, a flea doesn't avoid an odor paired with a shock. What do you conclude?

A mouse given a 'memory erasing' drug cannot find a hidden platform. What do you conclude?

What type of memory requires the medial temporal lobe?

What is a threadlike extension of a neuron that carries nerve impulses away from the cell body?

What is the end of an axon called?

What are the branchlike parts of a neuron that are specialized to receive information?

What are the portions of a neuron that receive stimuli?

What are the steps leading to neurotransmitter release and postsynaptic receptor activation?

What type of receptors are AMPA and NMDA?

What do AMPA receptors mediate?

What processes are NMDA receptors involved in?

Why are synapses silent if they only have NMDA receptors?

What are the characteristics of LTP?

How do NMDA receptors act as a coincidence detector for Hebbian plasticity?

Identify the timing and location of transcription and translation during LTP.

Is transcription involved in LTP induction or maintenance?

Is translation involved in LTP induction or maintenance?

Which neuroscience techniques are used to observe neurons?

What does it mean if a factor is sufficient in a biological system?

What does it mean if a factor is necessary in a biological system?

If a biology experiment removes factor F and notices no change to the system, what would you conclude?

Does an excitotoxic lesion test necessity, sufficiency, or correlation?

Do experiments with GABA agonists test necessity, sufficiency, or correlation?

Rank CT, EEG, MRI, PET, and electrophysiology methods according to temporal resolution.

Rank CT, EEG, MRI, PET, and electrophysiology methods according to spatial resolution.

If a human imaging technique is based on electrophysiology, what does that mean?

How is EEG different from electrophysiology?

Which is stronger: the Earth's magnetic field or a magnet in an fMRI machine?

Rank EEG, fMRI, and PET according to spatial resolution (from best to worst).

Rank EEG, fMRI, and PET according to temporal resolution.

Which technique is most appropriate for investigating long-term effects visible for minutes after a memory task?

What is a limitation of electrophysiology?

Which technique observes neurons?

What is a promoter and how is it helpful in optogenetics and chemogenetics?

How do mechanisms enabling initial memory formation differ from those for initial memory storage and long-term memory storage?

Compare and contrast initial memory recall from recall of old memories.

What technique(s) can we use to observe activity in individual hippocampal cells?

Describe the extent to which exercise affects neurogenesis and LTP to enhance memory.

What is a method to test whether swimming is correlated with memory performance?

Does EEG test sufficiency, necessity, or correlation?

What strategies to study memory in non-human animals can be applied to studying memory in non-verbal humans?

Explain the mechanism underlying infantile amnesia from the lens of systems consolidation.

Give an example of a verbal expression of a traumatic memory trace.

Give an example of a non-verbal expression of a traumatic memory trace.

What two brain regions might be particularly involved in traumatic memory?

What happens to cortisol levels in patients with depression and PTSD?

Define change blindness, inattentional blindness, and selective attention. How do they relate to one another?

What is the difference between deep learning and intentional learning?

A suspected serial killer's lawyer argues his behavior is due to damage to which brain region?

How do connections between the amygdala and PFC alter fear learning?

At what stage is the PFC involved in motor learning?

What are ways misinformation can be implanted into an existing memory?

What is a method to implant a false memory about your favorite biology professor at UCI?

How do Nader and colleagues' findings relate mechanisms of reconsolidation to the creation of false memory?

What is an example of prior knowledge or implicit bias affecting memory?

What do we expect when testing an 83-year-old man's memory for pictures shown in different colors?

How would you calculate pattern separation ability in experiments measuring it?

Comment on your classmate's calculation of recognition memory by counting 'old' stimuli as 'repeats' and penalizing mistakes.

What brain areas are affected in Alzheimer's disease?

What cellular events occur in the brains of those affected with Alzheimer's disease?

How could you identify cognitively normal people with high levels of brain amyloid, and why don't fMRI and immunostaining work?

What's the difference between a cure and a symptomatic treatment?

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