Psychology 2210A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Prefrontal Cortex, Episodic Memory, Explicit Knowledge
12 Mar 2018
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If your area is incredibly predictable then you would just need innate abilities. Parasites have very stable environments/highly predictable environments. Due to this it uses innate mechanisms to govern its behaviour. But when the parasite is excreted into the world, it has to be able to learn and adapt because the environment could be very difficult. Low risk population isn"t learning as fast: evident that there is evolution within a species and that. Stages of memory - ecr memory can be shaped by predation. Memory is a cognitive process and is not stable. Retrieval accessing stored information: recognition identifying familiarity, recall generating information in memory, requires more effort. Retrieval is not perfect as memories are reconstructions of the past: Pecf: pre-existing knowledge, emotional state, cues, false information. When memories are being reconstructed they are labile. Aniosmyscin disrupts protein synthesis so it can disrupt the storage of the memory if administered right away, the memory will be gone.
