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What is memory

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An expression of what you’ve learned

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What is learning?

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Process of acquiring info

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Anterograde amnesia

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Inability to form new memories

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Retrograde amnesia

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Loss of stored memories

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Nativist

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Inherited nature; fixed at birth

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Empiricist

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Experience (nurture); endless possibilities with experiences

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Supporters of nativism

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Plato and Descartes

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Supporters of empiricism

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Aristotle and Locke

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Current approach to nature vs. nurture

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Shaped by both

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Rene Descartes

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Dualism
Doubted everything
Cogito ergo sum
I think therefore I am

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Aristotle

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Associationism

Memory and reminiscence

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Rules of associationism

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Contiguity
Frequency
Similarity

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Contiguity

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Experiences near each other in time/space are joined together

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Frequency

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Experiences often repeated are connected more strongly

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Similarity

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Experiences similar to one another are connected

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Father of Psych

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William James

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Memory as a network of association

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William James

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Primary memory

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Short term (working)

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Secondary memory

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Long term

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Studied memory in modern and scientific way

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Hermann Ebbinghaus

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Empirical

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Actually collected data

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Experimental

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Manipulated IV to observe outcome on DV

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Quantitative

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Expressed observations numerically

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Ebbinghaus

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Studied himself
Developed the savings method
Exponential forgetting curve

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Exponential forgetting curve

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Rapid initial forgetting, but progressively less forgetting with time

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Pavlov

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Classical conditioning
Learning based of reflexes
Conditioning of a reflex of a behavior

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Edward Thorndike

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Operant conditioning (instrumental)
Cats in puzzle box
Law of Effect

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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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Behaviorism

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Focus on behavior
Empiricism
Evo perspective
Quantitative 
Law of Effect
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Behaviorists

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Watson
Skinner
Hull

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Cognitivism

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Did not use response learning

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Cognitivists

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Tolman (cognitive map)

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Place memory is dependent on

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Hippocampus

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Response memory is dependent on

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Striatum

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