PSYC10003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Habituation, Scoville Scale, Procedural Memory
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Psyc10003 mbb1 notes // long term memory & amnesia. Endel tulving further separated declarative memory into two different (dissociable - rely on different neurological networks in the brain) kinds of memory (though the two are still linked) Episodic memory: memory of autobiographical events: personally experienced events, when/where memories, contextualised memory. Semantic memory: factual memory: general knowledge of facts about the world, what/why memories, abstract knwoeldge. Classical conditioning (associative learning): learning to attend to a neutral stium because it has become associated with a meaningful stim. Operant conditioning (associative learning): learning to produce/avoid a behaviour because it has associated with rewarding/punishing consequences. Psyc10003 mbb1 notes // long term memory & amnesia: habituation: learning to ignore a stimulus because it is trivial (e. g. screening out background noise, sensitisation: learning to attend to a potentially threatening stimulus. Amnesia: deficits in memory caused by brain damage, disease, drug abuse, or psychological trauma.
