PSY 250 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Morris Water Navigation Task, Retrograde Amnesia, U.S. Route 15 In New York

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 250
• Professor: Ryan Parsons

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Explain eyeblink conditioning and why it is important. Describe how the morris water maze demonstrates the role of the hippocampus in memory. Place cells allows rats to know where its location is. A lesion to the medial temporal lobe was studied in which experiment: the study on h. m, the mumby box, delayed nonmatchingtosample task, all of the above, none of the above. Q9: experimental monkeys with bilateral lesions of the medial temporal lobe experienced a decrease in performance on an object recognition task during both a short delay (~0 seconds), and during a long delay (~10 minutes): true, false. Habituation is best described as a _________ in response to stimuli being present repeatedly meanwhile, sensitization can be be described as a _________ in response: decrease, increase, increase, decrease, decrease, decrease, increase, increase. Describe the role of the following 5 brain structures in memory: Cerebellum classical conditioning for sensory motor skills.