7.3 Learning And Memory Flashcards

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What is working memory?

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Short-term memory which we reason with. Get rid of most of info unless its important

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What is habituation?

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When you are aware of sensory input which is repeated continuously and doesn’t cause harm, so as a result you no longer detect the sensation, eg. Heart being sound

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What is sensitisation?

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Sensitising to a particular stimulus, overrides habituation

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What is classical conditioning?

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Pavlov and his dogs

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What is operant conditioning?

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Skinner-a behaviours becomes associated wth a positive or negative stimulus, eg. A dog coming when you give food

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What is procedural?

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Reflexive memories, eg. How to pick up a pencil. We just do it, don’t need to specifically decide which muscles to activate

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What are the 5 types of implicit memory?

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Habituation, sensitisation, classical conditioning, operant conditioning, procedural

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What is the central executive subdivision?

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works our timing of everything, determines what’s important remember

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What are the 3 subdivisions of the prefrontal cortex?

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  1. central executive
  2. phonological loop
  3. spatiotemporal sketchpad
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What is the phonological loop?

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where digits are stored

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What is the spatiotemporal/visuospatial sketchpad/

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storage of visual info and where it fits in space, proprioceptice

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What is explicit memory (aka declarative memory)

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can describe it into words

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What are the divisions of explicit memory?

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semantic and episodic memory

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What does explicit memory need?

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hippocampal formation

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Where is explicit memory stored?

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neocortex once consolidated (memories get stronger here)

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Why is the hippocampus important?

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forms explicit memory, known because the it is removed, the person cannot create long term memories

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What is the neocortex?

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where sensory function is detected

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What is semantic memory

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meaning of things, eg. words, sights, sounds

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What is episodic memory?

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mems of what happened

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what is semantic dementia?

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can’t recognise difference between people, damage to neocortex

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what is episodic dementia?

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alzheimers - occurs in hippocampus, ppl repeat themselves continuously

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how does PTSD happen?

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single fear memory stored for a very long time
the person will have the memory replayed over and over until it becomes a long-term memory

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What are the basic mechanisms involved in formation of memory?

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strengthening of synapses as result from prior activity

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What happens if you don’t recall information?

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if you don’t recall it in a month, the hippocampus will remove it

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What is Hebb's theory?
if there's a network of neurons and only a few were active to a certain stimulus, then activity will activate other neurons in the system so that it will remember the pattern of activity
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Why is sleep required for memory storage?
slow wave and REM sleep involved with consolidation of memory
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Where is the hippocampus located?
Located medially in the temporal lobe
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When is the hippocampus active?
During explicit memory consolidation