PSY 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Spatial Navigation, Childhood Amnesia, Neocortex

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 105
• Professor: Kristin Vickers

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Learning is measure in change of behavioural responses. Learning and memory are interrelated: traditionally animals are the focus for studying learning while human are for studying memory. Learning can be divided into associative and non-associative learning: associative learning is a change that occurs as the result of experiences that lead us to link two or more stimuli together. Awaken by the sound of the neighborhood when sleeping in a new apartment, but after a few days you"ll be able to ignore it: can be conscious and deliberate (explicit) or unconscious (implicit) Non-associative learning: occurring as a result of our experiences with a single sensory sue. Habituation a general process in which repeated or prolonged exposure to a stimulus results in a gradual reduction in responding: we"ve seen this idea before. Is not the exclusive result of sensory adaptation or fatigue of neurons in the sensory receptors but in the instead occurs within the central nervous system.