PSYC 3670 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Grey Matter, Gene Expression, Stem Cell

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3670
• Professor: Guy Bernard Proulx

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All the distinctively human aspects of our behavior are learned. The ability to learn and neutrally encode information, consolidate information for longer term storage, and retrieve or reactivate the consolidated memory at a later time. The specific information that is stored in the brain. There are several kinds of learning and memory. For patient h. m. , the present vanished into oblivion. Hippocampus: a medial temporal lobe structure that is important for learning. Subsequent research showed that the important distinction is between two general categories of and memory. memory: declarative memory: a memory that can be stated or described. It is the type of memory (cid:449)e use to a(cid:374)s(cid:449)e(cid:396) (cid:862)(cid:449)hat(cid:863) (cid:395)uestio(cid:374)s: fa(cid:272)ts a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)atio(cid:374) acquired through learning: nondeclarative memory: also called procedural memory. A memory that is shown by performance rather than by conscious recollection. It is the type of memory we use for (cid:862)ho(cid:449)(cid:863) p(cid:396)o(cid:271)le(cid:373)s a(cid:374)d is ofte(cid:374) (cid:374)o(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:271)al.