PSYCO275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Aplysia, Chemical Synapse, Biogenic Substance

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO275
• Professor: Clayton Dickson

Document Summary

Psyco 275 - lecture #21 - learning and memory. What the brain does: sensory-motor integrator. Projects to cns, which then allows a behaviour to be emitted. Same stimulus does not necessarily always evoke the same response: dynamic and modifiable. We can change the way the brain responds and modify our response. Brain can maintain this modifiable response over long periods of time: storage device. Can remember things that happened to them. Learning and memory: learning (behaviorist): environment or experience modifies behaviour. Knowledge is acquired: memory (psychologist): behavioural modifications via learning are maintained. Knowledge is maintained: examples of adaptive behaviours. Allows organisms to change their behaviours in order to better survive (evolutionary or genetic reasons) Neurobiology of learning and memory: two premises. 1st premise: operation of nervous system is completely responsible for behaviour and mind. If you don" have this premise, behaviour is very boring.