PSYC 2330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Benzodiazepine, Memory Hole, Caffeine

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2330
• Professor: Francesco Leri

Document Summary

Stimulation of the medial forebrain bundle (mfb): maintain self-stimulation behaviour, feels great, is rewarding, can also be used to punish behaviour, has no effect on memory consolidation answer = a. ***** every time you see an answer that says rewarding it s probably wrong. A reinforcer is an event that follows a response and changes the probability that the response will be emitted in the future. How can an event change behaviour when the new behaviour occurs in the absence of the event. Enhancement of memory consolidation - reinforcing events enhance the acquisition and storage of information in the brain. Attribution of conditioned motivation - learning is the formation of representations of the relationships among objects and events. A representation of a reinforcer will motivate behaviour. This is how memory changes our behaviour - memory is stronger and memory as an emotional component. Reinforcers are reinforcing is because makes memory stronger and embeds the memory with motivational signi cance.