Why Are Learning and Memory Treated Separately in Most Introductory

question 175

Multiple Choice

Why are learning and memory treated separately in most introductory textbooks in psychology?

• A) Psychologists have traditionally used animal subjects in studies of learning, but human participants in studies of memory.
• B) Learning and memory involve different brain mechanisms.
• C) Learning and memory are less related than they might seem.
• D) Psychologists have used experimental methods to investigate memory, but correlational research to examine memory.

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Definitions:

Surprise

An emotional response to unexpected events or information, characterized by heightened interest and physiological arousal.

Conditioned Emotional Response

A type of learned response in which an emotional reaction is elicited by a previously neutral stimulus through conditioning.

Classical Conditioning

The process of learning through which two stimuli are continually paired; a reaction that starts out being elicited by the second stimulus is in the end prompted by the sole presentation of the first stimulus.

Classical Conditioning

A teaching technique involving the connection between a stimulus from the surroundings and one that happens naturally.