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Stimulus-Response Learning
learning to automatically make a particular response in the presence of a particular stimulus; includes classical and instrumental conditioning TERM 2
Perceptual Learning
DEFINITION 2 learning to recognize a particular stimulus-ability to identify and categorize objects (including other members of our own species) TERM 3
Motor Learning
DEFINITION 3 Learning to make a new response-component of stimulus- response learning-interactions with objects: bikes, pinball machines, tennis raquets, etc. TERM 4
Relational Learning
DEFINITION 4 learning the relationships among individual stimuli- establishment and retreival of memories of events, episodes, and places TERM 5
Human Anterograde Amnesia
DEFINITION 5 occur after some disturbance to the brain, such as head injury or certain degenerative brain diseases-can learn a sequence of button presses in a serial reaction time task by pressing button that corresponds to the location of the asterisk-caused by damage to hippocampus*permanent anterograde amnesia usually caused by brain damage from chronic alcoholism
Human Retrograde Amnesia
cannot remember events prior to brain damage, head injury or electroconvulsive shock TERM 7
Consolidation of Memories
DEFINITION 7 short term memories are converted into long-term memoriessensory info -> short term mem. ->(consolidation)-
long-term mem. (rehearsal of short-term memory) TERM 8
Declarative Memory
DEFINITION 8 memory that can be verbally expressed, such as memory for events in a person's past TERM 9
Nondeclarative Memory
DEFINITION 9 memory whose formation does not depend on the hippocamal formation; a collective term for perceptual, stimulus-response, and motor memory TERM 10
Episodic Memory
DEFINITION 10 memory of a collection of perceptions of events organized in time and identified by a particular context
Associative Long-Term Potentiation
a long-term potentiation in which concurrent stimulation of weak and strong synapsesto a given neuronstrengthensthe weak ones TERM 17
NMDA Receptor
DEFINITION 17 a specialized ionotropic glutamate receptor that controls a calcium channel this is normally blocked by Mg2+ ions; involved in long-term potentiation-the predominant molecular device for controlling synaptic plasticity and memory function.-AP5: NMDA ANT TERM 18
AMPA Receptor
DEFINITION 18 -an ionotropic glutamate receptor that controls a sodium channel; when open, it produces EPSPs-strengthening of synapse accomplished by insertion of additional AMPA receptors into the postsynaptic membrane of the dendritic spine TERM 19
Action Potentials in Dendritic Spines
DEFINITION 19 aka "Dedritic Spikes"-occur in CA1 pyramidal cells, NMDA receptors, and AMPA receptors
