PSYCH 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17-22: Anterograde Amnesia, Latent Learning, Working Memory

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 100
• Professor: Rahhal Tamara

Document Summary

Learning is a relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by experience. Classical conditioning- a type of learning in which a neutral stimulus comes to bring about a response after it is paired with a stimulus that naturally brings about that response. Neutral stimulus- a stimulus that, before conditioning, doesn"t naturally bring about the response of interest. Unconditioned stimulus- a stimulus that naturally brings about a particular response without having been learned. Unconditioned response- a response that is natural and needs no training. Conditioned stimulus- a once-neutral stimulus that has been paired with an unconditioned stimulus to bring about a response formerly caused only by the unconditioned stimulus. Conditioned response- a response that follows a previously neutral stimulus. Extinction- a basic phenomenon of learning that occurs when a previously conditioned response decreases in frequency and eventually disappears. Spontaneous recovery- the reemergence of an extinguished conditioned response after a period of rest and with no further conditioning.