Exam 4 Study Guide - Honors Physiological Psychology | PSYC 3306, Study notes of Psychology of Human Development

Download Exam 4 Study Guide - Honors Physiological Psychology | PSYC 3306 and more Study notes Psychology of Human Development in PDF only on Docsity! 1 PSYCHOLOGY 3306 - PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY - EXAM IV STUDY GUIDE Learning in Simple Nervous Systems 1. What form of non-associative learning occurs when you repeatedly tap onto the siphon of an Aplysia at short and regular intervals? 2. Which investigator proposed in 1949 that memory depends on a change in synaptic strength between a cell and the nerve terminals that make contact with the cell (pre-post coincidence)? 3. In Aplysia, sensitization depends on the closer of what type of ion channel in the siphon sensory nerve terminal? 4. Research on Aplysia shows us that the physiological basis of sensitization involves which portion of the synapse, pre- or post-synaptic? 5. Habituation of the Aplysia gill-withdrawal reflex is mediated where and by what changes in ion channel conductance? 6. Some examples will be given illustrating sensitization…you’ll need to identify which one is right. 7. Pavlovian conditioning of the Aplysia gill-withdrawal reflex can be thought of as a special case of what type of non-associative learning? 8. Sensitization of the gill-withdrawal reflex of Aplysia is usually produced by what kind of stimuli? 9. Some examples of non-associative learning will be given…you’ll need to identify which are right? 10. A synapse that increases in effectiveness because of simultaneous activity in the presynaptic terminal and postsynaptic cell (pre-post coincidence) is form of what kind of process (hint: Donald Hebb)? 11. Superficially, dishabituation is much like what form of non-associative learning? 12. How does the mechanism of long-term potentiation in the mammalian hippocampus differ to the learning mechanism (i.e., pre-modulatory coincidence) investigated in Aplysia? 13. As noted in class, what is the best example of a neural mechanism underlying Pavlovian conditioning in vertebrates? 14. There are at least five lines of evidence that long-term potentiation (LTP) may be an important mechanism for memory. One of the points I give you will not be one of them. 15. What is the main feature of procedural (non-declarative) learning? Psychiatric Disorders 16. Give me a name of a relatively new anxiolytic whose pharmacological actions are quite different from those of benzodiazepines and barbiturates? 17. Benzodiazepines work as an anti-anxiety drug mainly by acting as what type of agonist and at what type of receptor? 18. Lithium is mainly effective in the treatment of what kind of depression? 19. Electroconvulsive shock therapy is normally utilized for what kind of condition? 20. What is the strongest evidence for the dopamine theory of schizophrenia? 21. What is the evidence that the dopamine theory of schizophrenia is not complete? 22. Is heritability a component for why people get schizophrenia? 23. What are some of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia? 24. Give me an example of an atypical antipsychotic. 25. What is the central neuronal pathway that most antipsychotic drugs act on to reduce the symptoms of schizophrenia called? 26. An alternative to the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia is the proposal that schizophrenia may also involve dysfunction in what type of neurotransmitter system? 27. A serious side effect that develops very late in some people after prolonged use of neuroleptic (antipsychotic) drugs is called? 28. A relatively new form of treatment strategy for neurological disorders that involves selective blockade of specific proteins in cells is called? 29. Certain MAO inhibitors used as antidepressants block the degradation of tyramine and thereby induce hypertension in patients. This syndrome is known as? 30. What is the most convincing pharmacological evidence that hyperactivity of dopamine neuronal systems is an underlying cause of schizophrenia?