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| relatively permanent change in an organism’s behaviour as a result of experience |
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| the ability to recall or recognize previous experiences |
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| learning procedure whereby a neutral stimulus (such as a tone) comes to elicit a response because of its repeated pairing with some event (delivering of food) |
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| Eye-blinking conditioning |
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| commonly used experimental technique in which subjects learn to pair a formerly neutral stimulus with a defensive blinking response |
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| learned association, a conditioned emotional response, between a neutral stimulus and a noxious event such as a shock |
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| learning procedure in which the consequences of a particular behaviour increase or decrease the probability of the behaviour occurring again (also called instrumental conditioning) |
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| partial or total loss of memory. |
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| conscious memory: subjects can retrieve an item and indicate that they know that the retrieved item is the correct item |
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| ability to recount what one knows, to detail the time, place, and circumstances of events |
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| ability to recall a movement sequence or how to perform some act or behaviour |
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| the rules of the game, implicit understanding of a problem can be solved with a rule that can be applied in many different situations |
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using a stimulus to sensitize the nervous system to a later presentation of the same/similar stimulus
- Implicit and explicit memory are both fallible |
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| info is held in memory for a brief amount of time, then discarded |
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| information is held in memory indefinitely |
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| autobiographical memory for events pegged to specific place and time contexts |
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| super episodic memory, personal memory dominates person’s life |
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| located on the medial surface of the temporal lobe; provides a major route for neocortical input to the hippocampal formation; often degenerates in alzhemeirs disease |
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| cortex located along the dorsal medial surface of the temporal lobe |
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| cortex lying next to the rhinal fissure on the base of the brain |
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| using visual information to recall an object’s location in space |
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| permanent loss of the ability to learn new information and to retrieve old information caused by diencephalic damage resulting from chronic alcoholism or malnutrition that produces a vitamin B1 deficiency |
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| process of stabilizing a memory trace after learning |
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| process of restabilising a memory trace after the memory is revisited |
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| memory for the affective properties of stimuli or events |
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| linkage of 2 or more unrelated stimuli to elicit a behavioural response (a goes with b) |
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| long-lasting increase in synaptic effectiveness after high frequency stimulation |
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| long-lasting decrease in synaptic effectiveness after low-frequency stimulation |
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| specific sites in DNA of neurons involved in specific memories might exist in either methylated on nonmethylated states |
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| - When body is stressed, pituitary glands produces ACTH which stimulates the adrenal cortex to produce steroid hormones |
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| chemical compounds that signal stem cells to develop into neurons or glia, also act to reorganize neural circuits |
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| neurotrophic factor that stimulates neurons to grow dendrites and synapses and, in some cases, promotes the survival of neurons |
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| interaction among different plastic changes in the brain |
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| 3 different ways to recover from brain injury |
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| she could learn new ways to solve problems, she could reorganize brain to do more with less, and she could generate new neurons to produce new neural circuits |
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| neurotrophic factor that stimulates the subventricular zone to generated cells that migrate into the striatum and eventually differentiate into neurons and glia |
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