Heidi has a series of events that she follows every morning: she takes a shower, dresses, eats breakfast, and rides the bus to school. Her memory of this sequence of events would most likely be organized in the form of:
a. a series of retrieval cues
b. a script for "morning events"
c. a series of mental images
d. semantic elaboration of common events
b
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When experimental results are significant, this means the hypothesis has been
a. experimental; rejected b. alternative; rejected c. null; accepted d. null; rejected
Which of the following are found in the motor cortex and are active when we perform an action or when we merely observe one being performed?
a. pons b. mirror neurons c. neurogenetic nodes d. neurilemmas
In a study on the biological bases of learning, lab rat A is given a drug that blocks dopamine activity in its brain. Thereafter, the rat is placed in an operant chamber where a lever-pressing task is shaped through positive reinforcement. We should expect that:
A. the rat will have more difficulty learning the task than a normal rat. B. the rat will have less difficulty learning the task than a normal rat. C. the rat will have the same amount of difficulty learning the task as a normal rat. D. the rat will have more difficulty learning the task than a rat that is being negatively reinforced.
Diagnosis of Pick's disease is confirmed only upon autopsy by the absence of the neurofibrillary tangles and plaques that are found in AD and by the presence of Pick's bodies in nerve cells.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)