Who is (s)he?
He designed the famous dog classical conditioning experiment.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
Define prediction error.
What is a new outcome- expectation?
Albert was a boy in an experiment where a fear response was conditioned. Initially, the boy did not fear a white rat. The rat was paired or associated with loud and scary noises and the boy became fearful of the rat and other white fuzzy objects. What is this situation an example of?
What is classical conditioning?
What are the three TA's names?
Victoria, Christy, and Aihara.
He said the famous quote in Neuroscience, “Neurons that fire together, wire together.”
Who is Donals Hebb?
Improved recall of specific episodes or information when the context at encoding and retrieval are the same.
What is context dependent memory?
Sarah drinks coffee every day when she studies for her big self-test, but when the day of the test comes around, she wakes up late and doesn’t have time to stop at Starbucks. When she gets the test, she has a difficult time recalling the answers to the questions.
State dependent memory.
What is Professor Insel's favorite animal?
He experienced a bilateral removal of his medial temporal lobes and was unable to remember events in his life. He still expressed a wide range of memory abilities but continued to struggle with Amnesia after the surgery.
Who is H.M.?
When information comes into our memory system (from sensory input) it needs to be changed into a form that the system can cope with, so that it can be stored.
Encoding.
A teacher rewards their class or certain students with a party or special treat at the end of the week for good behavior throughout the week. However, if the student misbehaves, the teacher can take away certain privileges. What is this an example of?
Behaviorism.
Where did Professor Lua study abroad for university?
France and Ireland.
He was an English musician, conductor, and experienced viral encephalitis that afflicted his central nervous system. He spent much of his time 'waking up' every 60 seconds, re-launching his consciousness once the time span of his short term memory elapses moment-to-moment consciousness.
Clive Wearing.
Memory is defined as...
The ability of living organisms to retain knowledge.
If you get a good grade on the self-test, Professor Michaela gives you a piece of candy as a reward. What is this an example of?
Operant Conditioning.
Who is Professor Michaela?
The father of Behaviorism.
John B. Watson.
What term explains the phenomena where information enters the long-term memory with little or no effort encoding?
Automatic encoding.
You are scrolling through your Instagram, checking your most recent post for the third time in the last thirty minutes. Your post finally hits over 100 likes, and you feel great about posting the photo when you did! What part of your brain is activated during this rush of excitement about other's liking your post?
Ventral Striatum.
What is TA Christy's favorite type of dog?
Corgi!!