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Chapter 13: The Biology of Learning and Memory

TRUE/FALSE

1. The UCR and the CR are always the same.

ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: factual REF: Localized Representations of Memory OBJ: 1
TOP: 13.1 Learning, Memory, Amnesia, and Brain Functioning

2. In operant conditioning, an individual’s response leads to a reinforcer or punishment.

ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: factual REF: Localized Representations of Memory OBJ: 1
TOP: 13.1 Learning, Memory, Amnesia, and Brain Functioning
MSC: www

3. Punishment makes it less likely for a behavior to occur again in the future.

ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: factual REF: Localized Representations of Memory OBJ: 1
TOP: 13.1 Learning, Memory, Amnesia, and Brain Functioning

4. In searching for the engram, Karl Lashley found that removal of larger areas of cortex resulted in the greatest impairment of memory.

ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: factual REF: Localized Representations of Memory OBJ: 2
TOP: 13.1 Learning, Memory, Amnesia, and Brain Functioning

5. Lashley was able to determine that the frontal lobe cortex is more important for memories than the parietal lobe cortex.

ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: factual REF: Localized Representations of Memory OBJ: 2
TOP: 13.1 Learning, Memory, Amnesia, and Brain Functioning
MSC: www

6. Eye-blink conditioning depends on the lateral interpositus nucleus.

ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: factual REF: Localized Representations of Memory OBJ: 2
TOP: 13.1 Learning, Memory, Amnesia, and Brain Functioning

7. The lateral interpositus nucleus in the cerebellum is essential for learning.

ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: factual REF: Localized Representations of Memory OBJ: 2
TOP: 13.1 Learning, Memory, Amnesia, and Brain Functioning

8. Information in short term memory is lost more easily than long term memory.

ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: factual REF: Types of Memory
OBJ: 3 TOP: 13.1 Learning, Memory, Amnesia, and Brain Functioning

9. To replace the concept of short-term memory, A. D. Baddeley and G. J. Hitch