Learning and Memory

Based off of revised learning checklist

Explicit Memory

A type of long term memory.

Is consciously/intentionally recalled and retrieved.

Can be verbally declard.

Implicit Memory

A type of long term memory.

Is unconsciously or unintentionally recalled and retrieved

Cant be declared

Episodic Memory

Is an explciit memory

Personal experiences

Semantic Memory

Is an explicit memory

Facts, trivia, general knowledge

Hippocampus

encodes and consolidates (save for long term) EXPLICIT memory

Amygdala

Encodes emotional IMPLICIT memory

Neocortex

Stores long term EXPLICIT memories (across multiple areas of brain)

Basal Ganglia

Encodes procedural IMPLICIT memories (especially relating to habits)

Cerebellum

Encodes and temporarily stores IMPLICIT memories of simple conditioned relflex and motor memory

Alzheimer’s Disease

abnormal build up or proteins in the brain and around neurons.

Form of dementia that gradually damages memory, thinking skills, and behaviour.

Death of neurons build up and destroy brain tissue - results in brain shrinkage

Aphantasia

Inability to visualise images in your head

Mnemonics

A memory technique/strategy to help us encode and retrieve info from the brain. (such as rhyming words n stuff)

Acrostics

Mnemonic

Using the first letter of words to remember a word

Method of Loci

mnemonic

uses spatial and visual memory to recall info

Song lines

complex systems of knowledge encoded in dance, song, ceremonies, and stories

Classical Conditioning

Operant Conditioning

A learning process in which behaviors are controlled by consequences, such as rewards or punishments. It emphasizes the role of reinforcement in shaping behavior.

A.B.C

Antecedent, Behaviour, Consequence - Positive reinforcement/punishment, negative reinforcement/punishment

Observational Learning

A.R.R.M.R

Attention, Retention, Reproduction, Motivation, Reinforcement

Procedural memory

Implicit memory subtype

Simple motor responses

Classically conditioned memory

Implicit memory subtype

involuntary response to a stimulus that’s been repeatedly associated with an emotionally arousing stimulus

emotion is usually negative such as fear/anxiety

acronyms

mnemonic

taking the first letter of each word in a phase. (P.I.N = Personal identification number)

encoding

forming a memory

consolidate

turning smth into a long term memory, pressing a ‘save’ button on smth