PSYCH 202 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Anterograde Amnesia, Mammillary Body, Thiamine
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Explicit memory for semantic and episodic information that can be declared". Explicit or conscious: episodic: personal experience, semantic: basic knowledge of facts and language, spatial : Implicit or unconscious: sensitization, habituation, skill, priming. Inability to form new declarative memories (new incoming information into long term memories) Removed hippocampus and amygdala to fix epilepsy. Synaptic strengthening: glutamate bound to nmda receptor, depolarization of postsynaptic cell. Simultaneous firing at a weak synapse and strong synapse on the same postsynaptic neuron to strengthen the weaker one due to association. As long as you keep initiating it. Long term alcohol use prevents absorption of vitamin b1. Emotions are physiological responses to a salient (important to you) environmental situation. *what are the 3 objective components of emotional response: autonomic arousal (objective - measurable, behavioral action (objective, feelings (subjective) *3 theories of explaining feelings: james-lange theory, cannon-bard theory, schachter-singer two-factor theory. *contempt and embarrassment are not considered universal feelings out of 8.
