PSY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Hebbian Theory, Magnesium, Excitatory Postsynaptic Potential

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 201
• Professor: Paul Dassonville

Document Summary

Acquisition, storage and retention of skills and knowledge. Trace of the sensory input is retained for a brief period. High capacity and very short duration (up to few seconds) Attentive/conscious processing occurs, information enter from both sensory memory and ltm. Stored representations of knowledge gained from previous experience. Learning facts and information of which we can be aware, and that you can declare to other people. Things you know that you can show by doing. Skill (motor) learning: memory about perceptual and motor procedures of which we are aware. Priming: exposure to one stimulus alters response to another. Being more likely to use a word you recently heard. Conditioning: learning the relationship between stimuli (classical) or between behavior and outcome (operant. Salivating when you see your favorite food. Hebbian rule: synapse is strengthened if it is repeatedly active when the postsynaptic neuron fires.