5 Learning and Memory

Question 1

What are the 3 key stages in Classical conditioning?

Answer 1

Pre-conditioning
Conditioning
Post-conditioning

Question 2

What happened to little albert?

Answer 2

in 1920 took part in that study
after classical conditioning developed fear of white rats
it only took 7 pairings to do this

Question 3

What is classical conditioning based on?

Answer 3

stimulus-stimulus associations

Question 4

What is operant conditioning based on?

Answer 4

respose-outcome associations

Question 5

What study supported the model of observational learning?

Answer 5

Bobo doll expirments 1961-63

Question 6

What might be difficult to learn without observation?

Answer 6

clinical skills

Question 7

What are mirror neurons?

Answer 7

the neural basis for observational learning

Question 8

What are the 3 stages of memory?

Answer 8

encoding
storage
retrieval

Question 9

What is the capacity of STM?

Answer 9

memory span task: 7+2

Question 10

How can you maintain STM?

Answer 10

rehearsal (working memory)

Question 11

How is STM forgotten?

Answer 11

displacement

Question 12

How is LTM forgotten?

Answer 12

interference and / or decay

Question 13

What proportion of a consultation will patients remember?

Answer 13

50%

even less for anxious or elderly patients

Question 14

Name a diffuse brain disease

Answer 14

dementia

Question 15

Name a focal brain disease

Answer 15

amnesia

Question 16

Name a physiological disturbance of the brain

Answer 16

delirium

Question 17

What are the 2 types of amnesia?

Answer 17

retrograde amnesia

anterograde amnesia

Question 18

What are the signs of anterograde amnesia?

Answer 18

difficulty learning new info
disorientation / confusion
trouble holding a job

Question 19

What happened to Henry Molaison?

Answer 19

1953 - underwent expirmental operation on his brain to cure his treatment - refractory epilepsy

woke up with anterograde amnesia

temporal lobes not good