PSYC 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Neurotransmitter Receptor, Arteriosclerosis, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 211
• Professor: Jonathan Britt

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What is learning & memory? learning refers to the process by which experiences change our ns. Learning & memory (i: involve specific relations between stimuli in the environment, involve recognition and categorization of objects and situations, involve information about events in the world, involve skilled actions. Memory refers to the process that encodes, stores and retrieves the learning experience. Memories: can be transient or durable, can be consciously (explicitly) declared or involve implicit procedures, have a personal frame of reference, permits a form of time-travel, are not equally vulnerable to disease and disruption. Classical conditioning in classical (pavlovian) conditioning, a stimulus that previously had no effect on behavior becomes able to evoke a reflexive conditioned response this procedure involves the repeated pairing of two stimuli. Neural stimulus + unconditioned stimulus unconditioned response. When action potential reaches synapse t, the epsp is too weak to make the neuron fire.