Stress, Social Behaviour and Learning - Learning and Memory

Question

What are the 4 responses of classical conditioning (Pavlov)? explain them

Answer 1

Unconditioned stimulus (US), The stimulus is the one that evokes the response without prior experience

Conditioned stimulus (CS), the response evoked by the stimulus, which did not evoke a response before.

Unconditioned response (UR), the response on US, without prior knowlegde/learning

conditioned response (CR) The response given when the US is presented, without the UR.

Answer 2

Passive of active avoidance

passive: Suppress some behaviour that would otherwise be exhibitited

active: act to avoid noxious situations

Answer 3

Short term is for second or minutes remembered.

Long-term memory is for days week or maybe years of knowledge.

Answer 4

Things you know that you can tell others, like you grades from high scool or the capitol of Australia.

Answer 5

motivation

attention

arousal (=opwinding/klein beetje epinephrine release)

Answer 6

A little bit of epinephrine is healthy for studying. When there is none or too much, impairment of the brain happens, but when there is around 1500 pg/ml, you have a optimum in memory performance.

Answer 7

Glucose is thought to enhance memory, it is proven that it enhances the memory of elderly people who have difficulty regulating their glucose levels in blood.

Student performing the same test as these elderly, didn't have a significant improvement in enhanced memory, but do have an better attentional skill. But working recognition was influenced by the glucose treatments.