Who is (s)he?
He designed the famous dog classical conditioning experiment.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
The difference between the outcome you expected to receive and the outcome you actually receive that helps you learn.
What is a a prediction error?
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?
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 HM?
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.
What is state dependent memory.
This researcher formalized the stages of cognitive development, including sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational.
Who is Jean Piaget?
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.
the theory that describes how the depth of processing affects memory
What is the levels of processing theory.
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.
The type of memory mechanism that involves structural and functional changes in neurons due to a repeated exposure to a stimulus.
What is Long Term Potentiation
This kind of learning occurs when you go to the vending machine, and you unexpectedly get an extra bag of chips. As a result, you decide to return to that vending machine again in the future.
What is reinforcement learning.
He said the famous quote in Neuroscience, “Neurons that fire together, wire together.”
Donald Hebb
The type of long term memory that includes habits and skills.
What is procedural memory.
You are scrolling through your Instagram, checking your most recent post. You unexpectedly receive over 100 likes, and you feel great about posting the photo! This is the part of your brain that is activated when you receive this surprisingly high number of likes.
What is the Ventral Striatum.