PSY352H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Episodic Memory, Latent Learning, Memory Consolidation
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Animal learning & memory: animals adapting to local conditions via the process of learning from evolution might take a lot time, experience-dependent learning allows for fast adaptation to enviroment. Chimpanzee can learn about sign language: vocabulary are expandable. Dogs are able to learn words and gestures: dogs are said to be natural selected to communicate with human since our species co-evolve (adapted to communicate with each other) Rat can solve the maze task to find rewards. Pigeons learn to peck at the appropriate button to obtain food: more species of birds are able to learn through tasks. Even simple organism like nematodes can learn and remember: associative learning with olfactory cues. Learning and memory are crucial, allowing experience dependent modification of behavior: learning, attended to stimuli, acquiring info on stimulus. There are many forms and types of learnings. Often scientific process, scientist help us to classify things (categorizing into differen forms_
