PSYCH-101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Operant Conditioning, Autonomic Nervous System, Brainstem
11 Sep 2020
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Operant conditioning mostly needs multiple trials and repetition. Except when there is actual danger (single trial) Include frontal lobe neurons that some scientists believe fire when performing certain actions or when observing another doing so. We first record to-be-remembered information as a fleeting sensory memory. From there, we process information into short-term memory, where we encode it through rehearsal (hippocampus) Finally, information moves into long-term memory for later retrieval. Atkinson and shiffrin"s classic three-step model helps us to think about how memories are processed, but today"s researchers recognize other ways long-term memories form. For example, some information slips into long-term memory via a back door, without our consciously attending to it (automatic processing). And so much active processing occurs in the short-term memory stage that many now prefer to call that stage working memory. Working memory, to stress the active processing occurring in the second memory stage. Automatic processing, to address the processing of information outside of conscious awareness.
