Chapter 13: Learning and Memory
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Handout 13.2
Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle I
Learning
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Carlson: Physiology of Behavior
Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle
Learning
Across
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An aversive stimulus that follows a particular behavior and thus makes the behavior
become less frequent is:
5.
An ionotropic glutamate receptor that controls a sodium channel.
7.
Learning to make a new response.
8.
Abbreviation for a group of dopaminergic neurons in the ventral midbrain which plays
a critical role in reinforcement.
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A nucleus of the basal forebrain near the septum.
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A region of the limbic cortex that provides the major source of input to the
hippocampal formation.
11.
An appetitive stimulus that follows a particular behavior and thus makes the behavior
become more frequent is:
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Memory for a stimulus that has just been perceived.
Down
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Involved in learning to recognize a particular stimulus.
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Abbreviation for a long-term increase in the excitability of a neuron to a particular
synaptic input.
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The reduction or elimination of a conditional response by repeatedly presenting the
conditional stimulus without the unconditional stimulus.
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A task that requires the subject to learn to recognize pairs of stimuli.
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A specialized ionotropic glutamate receptor that controls a calcium channel that is
normally blocked by MG2+ ions.
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