Week 7: Learning, Memory, Amnesia Flashcards
Reviw: Who proposed the idea of classical conditioning?
Ivan Pavlov
Reviw: what is classical conditioning?
A learning process that involves associating a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus
There are two categories of learning, what are those?
Classical Conditioning and Instrumental conditioning
This is where an experimenter presents a conditioned stimulus that ellicts no response, but when presented a unconditioned stimulus, it gives an uncontrolled response
Classical Conditioning
This is where an experimenter either a reinforce increases future probability of a response or punishment to suppress it’s frequency
Instrumental conditioning
An individual’s response determines the outcome
Instrumental conditioning
The physical representation of what has been learned
Engram
Engram is proposed by who?
Karl Lashley
___ learning and __ ___ learning are complex tasks in which a rat attends to visual and tactile stimuli
Maze learning and visual discrimination learning
Highly emotional experiences arouse the locus coruleus which increases norepinephrine release throughout the cortex and dopamine release in the hippocampus
Flahbulb memory
What does STM & LTM stand for?
Short term memory and long term memoy
Refers to the way we store information while we are working with it
Working memory
Known as memory loss
Amnesia
Marked by periods of forgetfulness, confusion, slow thinking and impaired concentration
Brain fog
It is the most common cause of severe memory loss
Alzheimer’s Disease
It is the gene that increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease
APOE4
A universal experience that older children and adults remember little of what happened in their first few years
Infant amnesia
Infant amnesia is also known as
Early childhood amnesia
Types of amnesia
Difficulty recalling events or information that occurred before onset of amnesia
Retrograde amnesia
Types of amnesia
Difficulty forming new memories or recalling information learned since onset of amnesia
Anterograde amnesia
Types of amnesia
Temporary memory loss lasting several hours, typically not associated with long-term memory problems
Transient global amnesia
Types of amnesia
Caused by traumatic brain injury, this can cause difficulty recalling events before and after injury, and forming new memories
Post-traumatic amnesia
Types of amnesia
Caused by psychological trauma or stress, difficulty in recalling personal information or specific events
Dissociative amnesia
Inability to remember events from infancy or early childhood due to underdeveloped areas of the brain during this period
Infantile amnesia
