PSYCH 330 1st Edition Lecture 19Learning=obtaining informationmemoryretrieving that informationScientists study learning from the bottom up encode>process>storeimplicit memory is nondeclarative, proceduralmotor learning, learned through classicalconditioningexplicit is declarative, topdown, memory you’re conscious of having access to, amnesiais theloss of declarativeLong term memorycan last years but if you never think about something the memory will fadefrom storage, to have a memory be kept in long term you have to encode sensory info andkeep looping through short termShort term not for storage, lasts from a min to a secWorking memoryuses short term and manipulates it but does not store itAnterograde amnesiacan’t form new memoriesH.Mhad epilepsy because of overexcitation of temporal lobes, his hippocampus wasremoved and he had anterogradeThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.Korsakoffs syndromedeficiency of Thiamine, causes damage to prefrontal cortex, changespersonality, there is white/gray matter lossLearningsynaptic formationmore synapses, nodes, and spines so they have more of an influencecomplex memories take complex synaptic circuitrypruning or forgetting is a part of learning, makes way for newmore estrogen=more spines; stress lessens the synaptic branches, amphetamine
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