Lectures 2 & 3

Question 1

What did Karl Lashley discover after lesioning different regions of the brain?

Answer 1

There’s no localized area for memory but dispersed in the cortex

Question 2

What did stimulation of the hippocampus cause?

Answer 2

Vivid memories to return

Question 3

Who was Patient H.M?

Answer 3

Lost short term memory and did the star experiment

Question 4

What did Patient H.M doing the star experiment prove?

Answer 4

Procedural memory and declarative memory are separate

Question 5

Students of WHO became pioneers in the field of learning and memory?

Answer 5

Donald Hebb and Penfield

Question 6

What are the 3 main types of learning?

Answer 6

Nonassociative, associative, and observational

Question 7

What is Nonassociative memory?

Answer 7

Learning about a stimulus in the outside world

Question 8

What is associative learning?

Answer 8

Learning the relationship between two pieces of information

Question 9

What is observational learning?

Answer 9

Learning by watching how others behave

Question 10

What is operant conditioning?

Answer 10

Learning in which we associate our voluntary actions with the consequences of those actions

Question 11

What are the two types of Nonassociative learning

Answer 11

Habituation - when our behavioral response to a stim decreases
Sensitization - when our behavioral response to a stim increases