Nros 412 exam 1 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

What is the difference between habituation and adaptation? How could you tell if a decrease in the behavioral response of an animal is due to habituation or adaptation? - Habituation: Non noxious stimuli at low frequencies to stop an animal from responding, (reduce quantal content, synaptic pruning), homo-synaptic depression Adaption: What types of molecular events are likely to underlie short term memory? Long term memory? Forgetting? - Short Term: Increase quantal content, increase Ca2+,...