Damage to the ________ Would Most Likely Interfere with Learning

question 144

Multiple Choice

Damage to the ________ would most likely interfere with learning a conditioned fear response to the sight of a dog who had threatened you on several occasions.

• A) hippocampus
• B) basal ganglia
• C) hypothalamus
• D) cerebellum

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Definitions:

Sea Islands Experiment

An early Reconstruction initiative in the 1860s aimed at redistributing land on the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina to newly freed slaves.

Ten-Percent Plan

A Reconstruction plan proposed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, suggesting that a Southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10% of its voters swore an oath of allegiance to the Union.

Reconstruction

The period after the American Civil War (1865–1877) during which the United States attempted to reintegrate the Confederate states back into the Union and rebuild the South.

Amnesty

A governmental act of forgiveness for individuals or groups who have committed a political offense, often after a conflict or under a new regime.