Nros 412 exam - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Define learning, memory, and recall(separately). - learning: the acquisition and forming of new connections memory: remembering of events thst occured in past. Using the connections previously made to repeat a task or performance in similar way recall= to bring memory from long term to short term/ working memory Describe the major differences between declarative and non-declarative memory - declarative = facts and events nondeclarative = procedural memory, habits Describe the basics of f...

What is the difference between habituation and adaptation? How could you tell if a decrease in the behavioral response of an animal is due to habituation or adaptation? - Habituation: Non noxious stimuli at low frequencies to stop an animal from responding, (reduce quantal content, synaptic pruning), homo-synaptic depression Adaption: What types of molecular events are likely to underlie short term memory? Long term memory? Forgetting? - Short Term: Increase quantal content, increase Ca2+,...