NROC61H3 Chapter Notes -Entorhinal Cortex, Hypoglycemia, Protein Kinase C
23 Jan 2013
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Procedural memory involves learning a motor response (procedure) in reaction to a sensory input. It includes: non-associative learning: there are two types of responses. Habituation: learning to ignore a stimulus that lacks meaning. So repeated presentation of the same stimulus produces a progressively smaller response. Sensitization: learning to intensify your response to stimuli, even ones that previously evoked little or no reaction: associative learning: this involves forming associations between events. Classical conditioning (involves stimulus): remember ivan pavlov"s dogs; this involves the unconditional stimulus (meat) and conditional stimulus (tone). Conditioning occurs when a conditioned response (cr) is learnt via close association of cs and us. The cs has to be presented slightly before or simultaneously with the us to work. Instrumental conditioning (involves behaviour): an individual learns to associate a response, a motor act, with a meaningful stimulus, typically a reward such as food. Think of a lever pressing rat in this case.
