PSYCH 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Experimental Psychology, Spaced, Hermann Ebbinghaus
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Two kinds of learning: procedural and declarative - mediated by different brain circuits. Temporal lobe structures but eventually migrates to cortex. Ex. faces and names of faces, where car is parked, what you ate for dinner last night. Storage substantially in basal ganglia structures (esp. striatum) Ex. motor skills, predicting weather from multiple subtle cues, playing a piece on piano, classical conditioning. Visual discrimination uses procedural (looking at a triangle/circle and determining where the food is behind) Tank of milky water with floats (with pictures) in it -- platform under one of the floats. In first case: the float near the window has the platform under it - declarative system. In second case: the float with the triangle on it has the platform underneath - procedural system. Rats can learn to be afraid of a situation through context clues - declarative system. Determined this through making lesions in either hippocampus or basal ganglia and seeing what the rat still knows.
