TIMS LEARNING AND MEMORY Flashcards
adaptive change in behavior caused by experience?
learning
what are the levels of learning?
non associative
associative
complex
conceptualization
habituation and sensitization is what level of learning?
non associative
classical conditioning and operant conditioning are what levels of learning?
associative
imprinting, latent, vicarious is what level of learning?
complex
this is the level of leaning found in humans and apes?
conceptualization
this is the term used to describe the entering of information constantly into small capacity buffer (short term) until we can save it in a large capacity (long term)?
memory
input can or experiences can be saved in what types of memory which then are later recalled?
hint (RAM and HARD DRIVE)
RAM for short term memory
HARD DRIVE for long term memory
the neurons involved in short term memory are _____?
hippocampus
dorsomedial thalamus
temporal lobe of the cortex
the loss of the ability to form new long-term memories is called?
anterograde amnesia
other brain regions play a role in converting short to long term memories and degeneration of this structure is the reason why
what disease does this result in?
mammillary bodies
Korsakoff syndrome
term used for loss of previously stored memories?
retrograde amnesia
this is a disease affecting memory, both retrograde and anterograde amnesia can result when the patient can retain old memories bit not remembering what happened yesterday
alzheimers disease
what is necessary to convert short term memories to long term memories?
facilitation and plasticity
part of the brain mostly reponsible for long term memory?
hippocampus
