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Chapter 19: Actions, Habits, and the Cortico-Striatal System
Test Bank
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Title: Chapter 19 - Question 1
1. Instrumental behavior is modified by the outcome it produces.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 19 - Question 2
2. According to Thorndike’s Law of Effect, instrumental behavior should not be considered purposeful or goal directed.
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b. False
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3. According to Thorndike’s Law of Effect, instrumental behavior is considered purposeful or goal directed.
a. True
b. False
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4. Thorndike believed that instrumental behaviors are purposeful and organized around goals.
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b. False
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5. Tolman believed that instrumental behaviors are purposeful and organized around goals.
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b. False
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6. Tolman’s theory placed a heavy emphasis on the value of the outcome produced by an instrumental behavior.
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b. False
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7. The habit system is more flexible than the action system.
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b. False
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8. The action system adapts rapidly to changes in contingencies.
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b. False
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9. The habit system adapts slowly to changes in contingencies.
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b. False
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10. The habit system adapts rapidly to changes in contingencies.
a. True
b. False
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11. The habit system is sensitive to repetition.
a. True
b. False
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Title: Chapter 19 - Question 12
12. Actions are supported by expectancies whereas habits are supported by S-R connections.
a. True
b. False
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13. Reward devaluation will not influence the behavior if it is controlled by the action system.
a. True
b. False
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Title: Chapter 19 - Question 14
14. Reward devaluation will not influence the behavior if it is controlled by the habit system.
a. True
b. False
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Title: Chapter 19 - Question 15
15. Allowing the monkey to eat either all the peanuts or all the grapes it wants reduces the value of one of the rewards.
a. True
b. False
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Title: Chapter 19 - Question 16
16. Discrimination reversal tests are thought to measure flexibility.
a. True
b. False
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Title: Chapter 19 - Question 17
17. Rats with damage to the action system would adapt more rapidly to a discrimination reversal than normal rats.
a. True
b. False
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18. Rats with damage to the habit system would adapt more rapidly to a discrimination reversal than normal rats.
a. True
b. False
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Title: Chapter 19 - Question 19
19. Rats with damage to the habit system would adapt more rapidly to a discrimination reversal than rats with damage to the action system.
a. True
b. False
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Title: Chapter 19 - Question 20
20. Cocaine use and chronic stress could interfere with the action system, and this could result in the habit system controlling instrumental behaviors.
a. True
b. False
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Title: Chapter 19 - Question 21
21. Like the MTH system, the cortico-striatal system has return-loop organization.
a. True
b. False
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22. The striatum is a part of the basal ganglia.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 19 - Question 23
23. Rats with damage to the striatum performed as well as control rats in the adjacent-arm task.
a. True
b. False
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Title: Chapter 19 - Question 24
24. The prelimbic region is critical in the acquisition of the associations that support a habit.
a. True
b. False
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Title: Chapter 19 - Question 25
25. The dopamine reinforcement hypothesis relates dopamine to Thorndike’s idea that rewards strengthen associative connections.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 19 - Question 26
26. What are the two categories of instrumental behavior?
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Title: Chapter 19 - Question 27
27. Describe the methodology behind the Thorndike puzzle box.
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28. Describe Thorndike’s Law of Effect theory.
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29. What was the significance of Thorndike’s test findings that escape latency gradually decreased as a function of trials?
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30. How does Tolman’s cognitive expectancy system differ from Thorndike’s view?
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31. Explain the term expectancy.
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32. What are the four differences between action and habit?
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33. Explain the term flexibility in the context of instrumental behavior.
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34. Why is the reward devaluation strategy used?
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35. How can one determine whether the correct response is an action supported by an expectancy or a habit supported by an S–R connection?
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Title: Chapter 19 - Question 36
36. How does the discrimination reversal learning strategy test the flexibility of the system that supports a particular instrumental behavior?
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Title: Chapter 19 - Question 37
37. In an experiment, rats that had limited training were sensitive to the value of the reward, making fewer lever-pressing responses than the control rats. What conclusions can you make?
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38. What is the experimental evidence that the action and habit systems initially compete for control of instrumental behaviors when the requirements of a situation are reversed?
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39. What are the components of the basal ganglia?
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Title: Chapter 19 - Question 40
40. What were the results in the adjacent-arm task?
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Title: Chapter 19 - Question 41
41. Which three brain regions have been linked to the action system?
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Title: Chapter 19 - Question 42
42. What is known about the role of the prelimbic prefrontal cortex in instrumental behavior?
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Title: Chapter 19 - Question 43
43. What two brain regions are critical to the acquisition and maintenance of habits?
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44. Consider this statement: The associations that support action-based behavior are still present even after the behavior becomes a habit. Do you agree? Why or why not?
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Title: Chapter 19 - Question 45
45. Which hypothesis provides an explanation for drug relapse?
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Title: Chapter 19 - Question 46
46. Which theory of instrumental behavior would be most consistent with the dopamine incentive salience hypothesis?