13.2 Flashcards

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What is skill learning?

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Learning how to perform a challenging task simply by doing it over and over

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Is the medial temporal lobe required to gain skills and retain them?

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No

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What 3 skills are impaired by damage to the basal ganglia?

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  • sensorimotor skill
    • perceptual skills
    • cognitive skills
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What is priming?

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A change in the way you process a stimulus, usually a word or a picture, because you’ve seen it, or something similar, previously.

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What is perceptual priming?

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Related to reduced activity in bilateral occipitotemporal cortex

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What is conceptual priming?

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associated with reduced activation of the left frontal cortex

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What is Associative Learning?

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The association between two stimuli, or between a stimulus and a response

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What is Classical conditioning?

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Aka Pavlovian, learning that stimulus predicts specific outcomes; ringing a bell and putting meat powder in a dogs mouth will eventually cause the dog to start salivating when it hears the bell alone

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What is eye blink condition?

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It is a form of classical conditioning

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What is crucial for simple eye-blinking conditioning?

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Circuits in the cerebellum

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What is the procedure for classical conditioning?

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Neutral stimulus, repeatedly paired with a stimulus that elicits a response, begins to elicit the response of the stimulus when presented alone

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What is Instrumental conditioning?

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Aka operant conditioning; learning that a specific behavior produces a specific outcome; ex. animal learns that performing a certain action if followed by a reward

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13
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What are cognitive maps?

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Memory representation of our spatial enviornment

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What is crucial for spatial learning?

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The hippocampus

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What are place cells?

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Cells in the hippocampus that become active when in, or moving toward, a particular location

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What are the 3 different stages of memory?

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Sensory buffers, Short term memories(STM), Long term memories (LTM)

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What are sensory buffers?

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The briefest recollection of sensory impressions

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What are short term memories?

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Memories that only last 30 seconds in the absence of rehearsal

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What are long term memories?

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An enduring form of memory that last days, weeks, months, or years

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What are the 3 processes in memory?

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Encoding, Consolidation, and Retrieval

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What is encoding?

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Sensory information being sent to your STM

22
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What is consolidation?

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Information being consul from your STM into LTM

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What is Retrieval?

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Stored information retrieved from your LTM

24
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LTM has a vast capacity but is subject to forgetting.

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What is a memory trace?
A persistent change in the brain that reflects the storage of memory; aka engram
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Do memory trace deteriorate over time?
No but it tends to suffer interference from events before or after formation
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What can happen to memories when retrieving information from LTM?
They become unstable and susceptible to disruption or alteration
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What is Reconsolidation?
The re-stabilization of a memory trace after it’s been retrieved from long-term storage