Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each described finding to the concept it defines.
- Memory loss tracked the amount of cortex removed, not its location
- Undamaged regions could take over a lost region's function
- Repeated co-activation strengthens the synapse between two neurons
- Arousal and subjective emotion occur together, both from the thalamus
- Equipotentiality
- Hebbian learning
- Mass action
- Cannon-Bard theory
Hints
- Reason from each empirical description to the principle it names.
- Amount-not-location is mass action; substitution after damage is equipotentiality.
Show the answer
- Memory loss tracked the amount of cortex removed, not its location → Mass action
- Undamaged regions could take over a lost region's function → Equipotentiality
- Repeated co-activation strengthens the synapse between two neurons → Hebbian learning
- Arousal and subjective emotion occur together, both from the thalamus → Cannon-Bard theory
Why
Amount-not-location is mass action, substitution after damage is equipotentiality, synapse-strengthening-by-co-activation is Hebbian learning, and simultaneous arousal-and-emotion-from-the-thalamus is Cannon-Bard. Each finding maps to one concept.
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