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The expression of learning; record of our past experiences

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Memory

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The process by which changes in behavior arise as the result of experience interacting with the world

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Learning

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Loss of ability to form new memories

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Anterograde amnesia

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Loss of stored memories

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Retrograde amnesia

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Philosophy by which humans are shaped by their inherited nature

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Nativist

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Philosophy by which humans are shaped by their experience (nurture)

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Empiricist

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Characteristics of nativist:

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Fixed at birth
Born great (or not)
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Characteristics of empiricist:

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Endless possibilities with the right experiences

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Associationism = we learn and remember through systematic rules

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Aristotle

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Association rules:

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Contiguity
Frequency
Similarity

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Experiences near each other in time/space are joined together

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Contiguity

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Experiences often repeated are connected more strongly

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Frequency

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Experiences similar to one another are connected

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Similarity

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William James was a

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Behaviorist

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First one to perform experiment

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Ebbinghaus

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Pavlov used what kind of conditioning to study what?

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Classical conditioning to study the laws of association

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Classical conditioning learning is based on

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Reflexes

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Edward Thorndike studied what

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Cats in a puzzle box and instrumental conditioning (rewards and punishments)

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Law of effect:

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Behaviors with positive effects are repeated; behaviors with negative effects are not

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Tolman was a

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Cognitivist

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Place learning is aka

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A cognitive map

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Place memory is dependent on this brain structure

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Hippocamus

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Response memory is dependent on this brain structure

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Striatum

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Multiple forms of memory develop at different times in training

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True

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Two components of the nervous system

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CNS

PNS

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CNS is composed of

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Brain and spinal cord

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PNS is composed of

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Cranial and spinal nerves

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Brain structure that is the body’s ultimate control and info processing center

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Cerebral cortex

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Cerebellum is responsible for

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Learned coordination of movement

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Hypothalamus is responsible for

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The emotions of survival

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Prefrontal cortex is responsible for

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Rational/thoughtful side

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Hippocampus is responsible for

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Details of life

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Basal ganglia is responsible for

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Automatic/habitual behaviors

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Amygdala is responsible for

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Emotional memories

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Neuroscience is the study of

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The brain and the rest of the nervous system

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The fundamental unit of memory storage

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Synapse

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Neurons do what?

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Collect info
Process/integrate info
Output info

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Cell body

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Soma

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Part of the neuron that collects info

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Dendrites

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Part of neuron that integrates and outputs info

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Axon

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Forms synapses with another neuron and sends neurotransmitters into synapse

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Terminal bouton

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Two kinds of communication neurons use

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Electrical

Chemical

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Communication via action potentials within a neuron

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Electrical

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Communication via neurotransmitters between neurons

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Chemical

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Element that has to enter the cell for action potential

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Na+

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Element that leaves the cell during action potential

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K+

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Hebb Rule

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If a synapse repeatedly becomes active at about the same time the postsynaptic neuron fires changes will take place for the synapse to strengthen

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Commonalities between LTP and memory

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Experience
Repeated stimulation
Drugs block
Conditions impair (aging, stress)

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Sequence of events in induction of LTP

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Transmitter release (glutamate)
Bind to AMPA receptors
Postsynaptic depolarization
Increase in intracellular Ca+

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Two types of neural plasticity

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LTP (insertion of AMPAR)

LTD (retraction of AMPAR)

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Behavioral responses that diminish over time

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Habituation

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Increase in the magnitude of behavioral responses to stimuli

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Sensitization

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Type of learning through repeated experiences with a set of stimuli makes those stimuli much easier to distinguish

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Perceptual learning

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Conditioning based on reflexes

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Classical conditioning

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Unconditioned stimulus (US)

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Naturally occurring stimulus that leads to reflex

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Unconditioned response (UR)

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Involuntary response to a US

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Conditioned stimulus (CS)

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Stimulus that causes a learned reflex

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Conditioned response (CR)

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Reflex response to a CS; same or similar to UR

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Repeated presentation of the CS in the absence of the US

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Extinction

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Extinction does not equal unlearning but instead

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Learning a new relationship

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Conditioned compensatory response:

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A CR that is the opposite of the UR helping to balance/correct for the US-UR reflex

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Thorndike used what kind of conditioning

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Operant conditioning

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S->R->O (operant conditioning)

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Stimulus response outcome

Positive behaviors increase
Negative behaviors decrease

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Classical conditioning

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Organism experiences the outcome (US) regardless if they have learned the conditioned response

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Operant conditioning

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Outcome is dependent on the organism performing the response

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Discriminative stimulus tell us

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Which contingencies are in effect in operant conditioning

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Shaping

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Successive approximations to build a complex response

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Reinforcer

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Consequence of behavior that leads to increased likelihood of behavior in the future

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Primary reinforcers

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Needs (food, water, sleep)

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Secondary reinforcer

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No intrinsic value but predict arrival of primary reinforcer

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Fixed ratio (stairs)

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Specific number of responses required

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Variable ratio (sharp)

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Number of responses required is different each time

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Fixed interval (scallops)

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Specific amount of time must pass before reinforcer is available

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Variable interval (low)

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Amount of time before receiving reinforcer is unpredictable

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Brain structures needed in conditioning

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Dorsal striatum

Orbitofrontal cortex

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Chemical that may be responsible for physiological wanting of reinforcement

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Dopamine

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Endogenous opioids

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Endorphins mediate “liking”

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Treatment for people with addictions:

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Cognitive therapy
Medication
Behavioral therapy

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HM symptoms

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Anterograde amnesia
Couldn’t make new memories
Could make procedural and skill memories

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Two types on long term memory

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Declarative (explicit)
Non declarative (implicit)
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Two types of declarative memories

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Episodic

Semantic

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Episodic memory

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Specific autobiographical events

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Semantic memory

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Memories for facts and general knowledge

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Proactive interference

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Old info interferes with new info

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Retroactive interference

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New info interferes with old info

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Sensory cortex

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First cortical processing center for sense

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Association cortex

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Links across senses

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Consolidation of memories depends on which brain structure

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Medial temporal lobes (MTL)

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Transient global amnesia (TGA)

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Temporary disruption of memory due to blood flow restriction

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Functional amnesia

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Lost memory for specific events or identity

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Working memory

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Active info maintain in STM to help think what to do next

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Cognitive control

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Manipulation of working memory for planning, tasks, attention, inhibition of reflexive behaviors

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3 components of working memory

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Phonological loop
Visuospatial sketch pad
Central executive

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Dorsolateral PFC supports central executive function and ventrolateral PFC supports storage

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True

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Left ventrolateral PFC is for

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Auditory

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Right ventrolateral PFC is for

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Visual

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Emotions have three components

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Physiological
Overt behavior
Feelings

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Two factor theory

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Arousal and context are interpreted by CNS to generate conscious feelings

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Social learning

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Observes behavior than chooses actions based on observations

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Emulation

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Coming to the same end goal through different actions

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Contagion

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Responding to social cues

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Social transmission of info

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Observer learns something through experiences involving others

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Hippocampal lesions produce what kind of amnesia

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Retrograde

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Basal forebrain lesions produce what kind of amnesia

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Anterograde

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