L10.1 - Learning and the brain

What is learning

• Memorizing random facts

• process by which an activity originates or is changed through reacting to an encountered situation

• Following instructions blindly

• Guessing without understanding

What types of memory does nondeclerative memory categorise

• procedural memory

• perceptual representation system

• non-associative learning

• episodic memory

Nondeclarative memory is what?

• explicit memory

• implicit memory

What is the most simple case of nondeclarative memory (often showcased with children)

• Intentionally changing behaviors

• habituation

• Learning through rewards and punishments

• Acquiring new habits consciously

What is habituation

• Associating a behavior with a reward

• Developing new habits through repetition

• A form of learning characterized by decreased responsiveness to a repeated stimulus

• Increasing interest in a stimulus

Habituation can be attributed to to what?

• modification of the presynaptic terminal with fewer neurotransmitters being released by each action potential

• Memory consolidation processes

• Heightened emotional responses

• modification of the presynaptic terminal with more neurotransmitters being released by each action potential

How does sensitisation contrast to habituation

• results from increased synaptic strength

• results from reduced synaptic strength

• involves learning about noxious stimuli

• involves learning about benign stimuli

T/F. Sensitisation is heterosynaptic

• T

• F

What are the two types of post-synaptic receptors

• Ionotropic receptors

• Metabotropic receptors

• Menaiono receptors

• Botropicmea receptors

T/F. Ionotropic receptors are fast acting and short-lived while metabotropic receptors are amplified and prolonged

• T

• F