Ch9 Making Memories Conceptual Issues Test Bank + Answers - Neurobiology Learning 3e | Test Bank Rudy by Jerry W. Rudy. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 9: Making Memories: Conceptual Issues and Methodologies
Test Bank
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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 1
1. Studies of LTP provide a foundation for uncovering memory molecules.
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 2
2. LTP is memory.
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b. False
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3. If damage to a particular brain region impairs test performance, we can assume that regions contained memory neurons.
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4. Damage to a particular brain region, X, impaired performance on a memory test. This result is consistent with the hypothesis that X is a memory-storage region.
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5. Short-term memories decay more rapidly than long-term memories.
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6. Long-term memories are more vulnerable to disruption than short-term memories.
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b. False
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7. Limited retrograde amnesia produced by a concussion likely affects only memories in the active state.
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b. False
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8. Behavior is the product of many subcomponent systems.
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9. Consolidation refers to the process of converting strong memories in to weak ones.
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10. Consolidation refers to the process of increasing the memory trace’s resistance to disruption.
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11. Amnesia is always due to a storage failure.
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b. False
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12. If amnesia is due to a retrieval failure, the lost memory can be recovered.
a. True
b. False
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13. If amnesia is due to a storage failure, the lost memory can be recovered.
a. True
b. False
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14. An advantage of the inhibitory avoidance task is that only one trial is needed to produce a behavioral change.
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15. A ceiling effect is said to occur if the response measure is already at the maximum.
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16. If the experimenter wants to study a drug that might interfere with memory, then the floor effect would be a problem to avoid.
a. True
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17. Fear conditioning provides the opportunity to measure both context learning and auditory-cue learning.
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18. Place-learning in the Morris water task uses a visible platform.
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19. On a probe test in the Morris water task, the hidden platform is removed.
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20. In the object-recognition test, memory is demonstrated if the animal spends more time exploring the new object.
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21. In the object-in-context task, animal memory is demonstrated if the animal spends more time exploring the object that was present in the training context.
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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 22
22. The advantage of stereotaxic surgery it that the experimenter can precisely place the electrode or cannula in the desired location.
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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 23
23. Viral vectors are used to deliver drugs to specific regions in the brain.
a. True
b. False
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24. Viral vectors are used to deliver mRNA constructs to specific regions in the brain.
a. True
b. False
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25. Viral vectors are not part of the optogenetics methodology.
Answer; False
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26. Activation of channelrhodopsin by green light will allow sodium to enter the channel.
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27. Activation of channelrhodopsin by blue light will allow sodium to enter the channel.
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28. The DREADD methodology takes more time to activate of inhibit neurons than optogenetics.
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29. The existence of a memory trace is inferred when the training experience influences behavior.
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30. Why is test behavior considered the window to the memory trace?
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31. What is the consolidation period?
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32. Explain why the ECS methodology did not advance our understanding of memory.
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33. Name three methods for influencing brain function.
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34. What is the significance of the learning–performance distinction?
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35. List three differences between a short-term memory trace and a long-term memory trace.
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36. What is a time-limited retrograde amnesia?
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37. What is the difference between amnesia due to a retrieval failure compared to a storage failure?
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38. Explain the floor effect.
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39. What are the unconditioned stimulus, the conditioned stimulus, and the conditioned response in fear conditioning methodology?
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40. How is the visible-platform task used to evaluate results observed in the place-learning task? Explain why.
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41. Explain why genetic engineering is believed to be more precise than applying drugs in manipulating the molecules involved in memory.
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Title: Chapter 9 - Question 42
42. What is the function of channelrhodopsin and halorhodopsins?