NPSY 11b Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Eyeblink Conditioning, Temporal Lobe, Classical Conditioning

• School: Brandeis University
• Department: Neuroscience and Psychology
• Course: NPSY 11b
• Professor: Katz Don

Document Summary

Plasticity = activity-dependent changes in behavior and neural activity during development and learning. Learning and memory: when you have a certain pattern of input, you end up changing how the neural activity works = cells that fire together wire together . In learning and memory, plasticity is in response to particular environmental contingencies". Basic learning conditioning: conditioning = very simple learning, types of conditioning , non-associative = habituation and sensitization, associative = classical/pavlovian conditioning, operant/skinnerian/instrumental conditioning. Associative conditioning: cs = conditioned stimulus the arbitrary/meaningless stimulus (tone) Operant conditioning: skinner said you learn nothing about learning by studying the brain. Cognitive" (operant more cognitive, more to do with animal"s thought processes) In third step, he put shock back in between flash and tone. Eyeblink conditioning: measuring whether the eyelid is open or shut in relation to time, if you deliver the air puff (ucs) in the eye, the person will blink (ucr), a tone then added in second before (cs)