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Limbic System
Emotion, memory, motivation center, basic human drives
-Hunger, thirst, pain, pleasure, sexual arousal
-Amygdala, Hippocampus, Hypothalamus, Thalamus, Olfactory Bulb
Hypothalamus
regulator, control center
controls - body temp, hunger and thirst, sleep cycles, heart rate and blood pressure
Thalamus
relay/Weigh station/bus station
filters and directs signals
Another name for Operant conditioning
Instrumental conditioning
Another name for classical conditioning
Respondent conditioning
Acetylcholine
learning, memory, muscle activation, REM sleep
-voluntary movement, memory, array in Alzheimers
NeuroT
chemical messenger that neurons use to communicate with each other and with muscles.
learning, attention, muscle memory
Extinction in Classical conditioning
Withhold the meat, the bell becomes meaningless.
-withhold CR, CS becomes NS
Extinction in Operant conditioning
take away the reinforcement
-ignore the child having the tantrum
Stimulus generalization
When a response learned for one stimulus also happens with similar stimuli.
Little Albert, white rat
-fear response to white furry rats, then fear to all white furry things
A child is bitten by a big black dog and becomes scared.
Later, the child feels afraid of all large dogs, or even all dogs in general — even if they weren’t bitten by them.
Response Generalization
Different (but related) responses to the same stimulus
Different responses, same trigger
A child is taught to greet others by saying “Hi.”
Later, the child also begins to: wave, smile, say hello
washing hands, then wash yoga mat, wash counters
Apraxia
give you a command but can’t do it/can’t engage in purposeful movement
understand what they’re saying, want to do it
-caused by damage to the Parietal Lobe
Ataxia
Jerking, lurching
A lack of coordination, balance, and control
Movements are jerky, clumsy, or unsteady
caused by problems in the cerebellum
Parietal Lobe
Propioception - body’s ability to sense its’ position, movement, and orientation withotu visual input - like touching your nose
sensory - texture, heat, cold
if injured - Apraxia
