Question

Synaptic plasticity (i.e., changes in the structure or biochemistry of synapses that alters postsynaptic receptors) has been demonstrated most frequently in which psychological phenomena:
Question options:
a) motivation

b) stress

c) learning

d) emotions

Question

Experience stimulates the production of ____________ to produce brain plasticity in the form of enduring structural changes
Question  options:
a) neurotransmitters

b) hormones

c) neurotrophic factors

d) genes

Question

The patient known as H.M. demonstrated which important aspects of amnesia?
Question options:
a) Plasticity in recovering from significant brain damage; importance of past experience in forming memories; reliance of emotional regulation on frontal cortex

b) Involvment of the hippocampus in memory; ability of one kind of learning, such as mirror drawing, to survive amnesia affecting other kinds of learning.

c) Importance of youth in surviving major brain damage; dependence of brain plasticity on the Y chromosome.

d) Confirmation of the amygdala as a “fear center” and of prefrontal cortex as a inhibitor of the amygdala.

Question

The role of neural reorganization in recovery of function after brain damage can be described as
Question options:
a) controversial, but it is assumed to play some role

b) recently well-understood

c) well-understood only in lower mammals

d) well-established