PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tabula Rasa, Empiricism, Classical Conditioning
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Psyc 333 lecture 1 summer 2016 - 4th july. Learning and memory: from brain to behaviour 3rd edition by gluck, mercado & meyers: limitations of ebbinghaus memory experiment. Cultural factor or less familiarity with english syllables. Can be affected by distractors: psy(cid:272)hology is i(cid:374)itially a (cid:271)ra(cid:374)(cid:272)h of philosophy a(cid:374)d (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s (cid:862)(cid:271)reath, life(cid:863) fro(cid:373) a(cid:374)(cid:272)ie(cid:374)t. It gradually evolved into an observational and later experimental discipline that is part of science: from philosophical phase, the first key contribution to memory is based on (cid:862)asso(cid:272)iatio(cid:374)s. (cid:863) Aristotle -> based on frequent associations between 2 items, memory can be formed. When an item triggers memory of another, the two can be closely or distantly related. James -> also worked on associations and memory. Pavlov, thorndike discovered classical conditioning and could teach it to animals by associating a and b through stimulus response: the second key contribution to memory is debate. Aristotle and plato argued that memory comes only from experience which is empiricism.
