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Question 1

Which of the following is an example of covert spatial attention?

a) Turning your head when you hear a loud crash

b) Being startled awake by a loud thunk in your house

c) Keeping your head facing forward while driving but still paying attention to the conversation you have with a passenger in the car

d) Diverting your attention back and forth form a powerpoint slide to the lecturer giving the presentation

Question 2

Why is our innate ability to notice salient stimuli more acutely than background stimuli beneficial?

a) it helps us to learn tasks more easily

b) it alerts us of potential benefits and threats

c) it allows us to focus more acutely on voluntary stimuli

d) it is not necessarily beneficial, it is actually detrimental to our ability to focus

Question 3

What sort of search are you performing when you identify the green heart in the image above?

a) serial search

b) parallel search

c) salient search

d) all of the above

Question 5

Caffeine is an effective stimulant that helps to keep you in an alert, waking state because

a) it is a potent adenosine receptor antagonist

b) it is a potent adenosine receptor agonist

c) it stimulates glutamate release

d) it blocks GABA receptors

Question 6

Refer to figure 13.26, why did the experimenters need to include a “yolk control” in this experiment?

a) to control for food intake causing weight loss

b) to control for aversion to water causing weight loss

c) to control for exercise causing weight loss

d) to control for the age of the mouse causing weight loss

Question 7

Your ability to perceive the sound of a trumpet amongst a cacophony of sounds in a jazz ensemble is because of what type of learning?

a) instrumental learning

b) perceptual learning

c) habituation

d) procedural learning

Question 8

The famous classical conditioning experiments conducted by Pavlov in the early 20th century were conducted with what model system

a) restrained dogs

b) unrestrained dogs

c) cats

d) mice

Question 9

Place the following hippocampal and cortical projections in the correct order.

a) dentate gyrus-->entorhinal cortexCA3-->CA1-->subiculum-->entorhinal cortex

b) entorhinal cortex-->subiculum-->CA3-->CA1-->dentate gyrus -->entorhinal cortex

c) dentate gyrus-->CA3-->CA1-->entorhinal cortex-->subiculum-->dentate gyrus

d) entorhinal cortex-->dentate gyrus-->CA3-->CA1-->subiculum-->entorhinal cortex

10

Which of the following characteristics of a cell assembly is/are necessary for sequence learning?

a) neurons need to be connection via Hebbian plasticity

b) synapses that become active after a postsynaptic spike become weakened or unchanged

c) spike-timing dependent LTP

d) all of the above

Question 1

Which of the following statements best relates the morphology of striatal medium spiny neurons to their function?

a) The many dendrites present on these neurons suggests they receive many inputs.

b) The size of these neurons leads to a relatively firing rate.

c) Most axons of these neurons are long and do not terminate locally, indicating that there is a great deal of striatal output to nearly every region of the cortex.

d) all of the above

Question 13

Examine Figure 15.4. Predict what would happen in the frontostriatal loop if a glutamate antagonist (glutamate receptor blocker) was administered.

a) Connections between the pallidum and thalamus would be disrupted.

b) Connections between the thalamus and the neocortex would be disrupted.

c) Connections between the striatum and the pallidum would be disrupted.

Question 14

Analyze Figure 15.15 and the text associated with this experiment. In this study, dopamine

a) is administered to the rat via a catheter after the rat presses a lever

b) is only released upon cocaine administration

c) increases before cocaine administration in trained animals

d) is given to the rat in the form of a dietary L-dopa supplement

Question 15

The frontal cortex contains which of the following divisions?

a) orbital

b) lateral

c) polar

d) medial

e) all of the above

a) Turning your head when you hear a loud crash

b) Being startled awake by a loud thunk in your house

Explanation / Answer

Question 1. Answer should be C

Question 2. Answer is C

Question 3. No image given

Question 5. Answer is a

Q.6 no figure provided.

Q.7 d) procedural learning

Q.8 a) restrained dogs

Q.9 d)

Q.10 answer is d

Q.11 answer is a

Q.13 no figure provided

Q.14 no figure provided

Q.15 e) all of the above

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