PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6.7: Anterograde Amnesia, Amygdala, Sketchpad

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

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Latent learning latent learning learning that is not immediately expressed by a response until the organism is reinforced for doing so. (rats example, reinforced group has less error existing the maze) Observational learning involves changes in behaviour and knowledge that result from watching others. required: attention, memory, the ability to reproduce the behaviour, and the motivation to do so. Imitation and observational learning imitation recreating someone else"s motor behaviour or expression, often to accomplish a specific goal. 1960s, richard atkinson and richard shiffrin reviewed what psychologists knew about memory at that time and constructed the memory model. Stores retain information in memory without using it for any specific purpose; The three stores include sensory memory, short-term memory (stm), and long- term memory (ltm), control processes shift information from one memory store to another; they are represented by the arrows in the model. The atkinson-shiffrin model memory is a multistage process.