PSYO 2470 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Spatial Memory, Saccade, Frontal Lobe

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYO 2470
• Professor: Stamp Jennifer

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Text definition: learning: acquisition of new info, memory: retention of learned information. Stamp: learning: process whereby experience alters future behaviour, change in behaviour due to an experience, memory: how experience-dependent changes are 1) stored and 2) reactivated, the stored information itself. Divided based on how much conscious effort is put into remembered. Declarative memories: explicit memories, conscious effort into remembering, can be declared, medial temporal lobe important in declarative memory, facts, ex. Capital of pei: do(cid:374)"t re(cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)er (cid:449)here (cid:449)e (cid:449)ere (cid:449)he(cid:374) (cid:449)e lear(cid:374)i(cid:374)g the(cid:373, events, episodic, tied to a particular time and place. Implicit memories: motor tasks provide evidence of the experience we learning, co(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious effort is(cid:374)"t to (cid:373)e(cid:373)orize, it"s to do so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g, procedural memories. Skeletal muscles involved: cerebellum, emotional responses involved, recruits the amygdala. Memory tasks is what differs between explicit and implicit memories: explicit ask someone to recall something g. Changed response to a single stimulus: attenuation of response, enhancement of response.