CAS BI 325 Chapter Notes - Chapter 24: Explicit Memory, Procedural Memory, Learning
2 Jan 2018
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Memories of facts and events = . Procedural memory : for skills, habit, & behavior. Nonassociative learning : occurs overtime in response to a single type of stimulus. Learn to ignore stimulus that lacks meaning. Ex: -- cs = auditory stimulus training/conditioning required to evoke response) stimulus (cs) . After many times pairing, meat removed dog salivated to bell alone. had learned an association b/w bell (cs) and meat (us) Individual learns to associate a response (motor act) with a meaningful stimulus, typically a reward such as food. Head trauma and electroconvulsive therapy (ect) can erase short-term memory, but has no effect on long-term memory. Possible that facts/events are stored in short-term memory and a subset are converted into ltm by process of . Distinct from stm bc limited capacity, requires repetition, & short duration. Dissociative amnesia = not accompanied by any other cognitive deficit. Loss of memory and/or inability to learn (1) retrograde amnesia: (2) anterograde amnesia: .
