Learning and memory

Question 1

describe the relationship between short term memory and long term memory

Answer 1

short term(working memory) is the gateway for information to enter long term memory

Question 2

what is declarative memory

Answer 2

knowledge and facts about the world

conscious recall

Question 3

what is non declarative memory

Answer 3

procedural memory- learning a procedure

Question 4

what is priming

Answer 4

improvement in identifying or processing a stimulus as a result of lots having been observed frequently

Question 5

what is the perceptual priming experiment

Answer 5

words presented and subjects asked to odentify them
some time later subjects presented with word stems and asked to complete them
priming is increased probability of choosing previously presented words (even if they were presented too quick to process consciously

Question 6

what is classical conditionin

Answer 6

previously neutral stimulus is paired with a positive stimulus that produces a response

Question 7

what is non associative learning

Answer 7

learning does not involve the association of two stimuli to illicit a bahvioural response

Question 8

what is habituation

Answer 8

decrease in level of response through repeated exposuure to a stimulus

Question 9

what is sensitisation

Answer 9

increase in level of response through the repeated exposure to a stimulus

Question 10

what are two examples of declarative memory

Answer 10

semantic and episodic

Question 11

what is semantic memory

Answer 11

memory for facts- norway has fjords

Question 12

what is episodic memory

Answer 12

memory for events- visiting the fjords in norway

Question 13

why is the study of episodic memory important

Answer 13

first symptom of mild cognitive impairnemtn which often leads to alzheimers
episodic deficits in huntingtins

Question 14

what is the main brain area associated with episodic memory

Answer 14

hippocampus

Question 15

what is the official definition of episodic memory

Answer 15

a system that recieves and stores information about temporally dated episodes or events and the temporal - spatial relations among events

Question 16

how have we tested episodic like memory in animals

Answer 16

birds prefer wax worms and store extra
birds choose worms when they are still fresh and not the ones they have learnt will have gone bad
they remember what, where and when

Question 17

why are birds not good model animals for psych

Answer 17

brains are v different to humans

very little is known about their behaviour and brains

Question 18

what was shown through experiments using rats for episodic memory

Answer 18

they remembered what and where food was but not when- contextual memory