PSYC 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Planarian, Grafting, Classical Conditioning

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1150
• Professor: Ken Cramer

Document Summary

Suppose you can speak both english and spanish. You then spend a considerable amount of time in mexico (forming memories) Memories are better recalled when you match language of encoding with language of recall. Bird, costume, mailbox, head, river etc. into story. Found that what we forget depended on position in list. Sleep has less interference, so sleep after studying for max results. It"s food for thought: chemical transfer of memory. If memory existed as molecules then transfer should be possible in form of a pill or injection. Transfer across species, or one species to another. Experiments, arguments, worm runners digest, mammalian studies, epilogue. Trained worms cut in half (trained to go towards light) Memory was everywhere not just in one place. Fed trained worms to untrained, and they learned faster. Over 70 variables cited to explain discrepancies. Species, size, dark/light housing, feeding , water, temp/chems etc. Injected untrained rats w/ trained rat brain goo.