PSYC23H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Developmental Psychobiology, Explicit Memory, Implicit Memory
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Amount of sleep and cortisol levels impact behavioral problems which affect daytime functioning. Low/high stress = low memory: decreases your explicit memory (cannot recall on own count or learn, can recall some implicit memory but cannot consciously recollect it. Increases your explicit memory thus, can learn and recall on own: memory is a construction rather than reproduction memory changes overtime because it is impressionable. Stress hormones from blood: new neurons and neuron connections are being built throughout the night, cortisol: Plays a direct role in enhancing dendritic processes by expanding dendrites, however only a few dendrites will connect (refer to red circle) Memory is fragile and can disrupt new information before it"s fully consolidated! Example: if you take medication that inhibits creating these synapses throughout the night, won"t remember anything because it wasn"t consolidated. New events that are being processed by memory take priority over previously (short-term) events that had just occurred memory is being disrupted.
