Brain & Behavior Exam 3 Study Guide

These flashcards cover key concepts related to learning, memory, emotional processing, and the effects of drugs on the brain.

Learning

Long-lasting change in behavior due to experience.

Memory

Record of experience.

Declarative (Explicit) Memory

Facts/events; hippocampus-dependent.

Nondeclarative (Implicit) Memory

Skills/procedures; hippocampus-independent.

Patient H.M. (Henry Molaison)

Lost hippocampus leading to anterograde amnesia; could still form new nondeclarative memories.

Declarative subtypes of memory

Episodic (events), Semantic (facts)

Nondeclarative subtypes of memory

Skill learning, Classical conditioning, Operant conditioning

Operant conditioning reinforcement

Increases behavior.

Declarative memory

hippocampus and nearby cortex

Skill learning

basal ganglia

Classical conditioning

cerebellum

Operant conditioning

multiple brain areas

Operant conditioning reinforcement

increases behavior

Operant conditioning punishment

Decreases behavior.

Most effective reinforcement schedule (e.g., slot machines).

Variable ratio schedule

Cognitive Map

Mental representation of spatial relationships.