TB9 B&B Lecture 4; Motor function and cognition

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1. What is the main premise of descriptive theory?

  • Bias when there are risks involved and variable schedules of reinforcement
  • People make decisions based on anticipated gains and losses which are subjectively assessed. Concept of availability
  • Concept of probability, expected value and utility and bias when there are risks involved
  • People make decisions based on anticipated gains and losses which are objectively assessed to remove bias. Concept of availability
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2. What is a normative theory?

  • Bias when there are risks involved and variable schedules of reinforcement
  • Concept of probability, expected value and utility and bias when there are risks involved
  • Variable ratio reinforcement and schedules of reinforcement

3. What are increases in activity with unpredictable reward?

  • PFC
  • Striatum
  • Nucleus accumbens
  • Ventral tegmental area

4. Dopamine activity is an index of...?

  • Utility processing
  • Reward processing
  • Reward prediction error
  • Utility prediction error

5. Motor skill refers to...?

  • The efficiency at which muscles can be engaged and actions executed
  • The ability to solve a motor problem correctly, quickly, rationally and resourcefully
  • Carried out in isolation from cognitive mechanisms, the ability to solve a motor problem correctly, quickly, rationally and resourcefully
  • The speed at which actions go from perceptual recognition to execution

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