PSYC 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Classical Conditioning, Long-Term Memory, Neurotransmitter
15 Sep 2016
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Memory: the storage and retrieval of information over time. Learning is a major vehicle for behavioral adaptation. Studies of learning- important for both normal and abnormal behaviors. Animal/person learns about the properties of one stimulus. Person learns about relationship between two stimuli and/or a stimulus and its behavior. Fruit flys genome has been sequenced and thus are good models for learning and memory. Animal exposed once or repeatedly to a single stimulus. Animal learn about properties of that stimulus. May occur the first time a stimulus is presented. Once they learn that that stimulus will not hurt them, they no longer react. Sensitization: increase response following and intense or painful stimulus. What changes are occurring on the cellular level when something starts learning and memory. Animal withdraws the sensitive siphon and gill as a protective reflex. Results from touch to either mantle, siphon and gill.
