CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mary Cover Jones, B. F. Skinner, Operant Conditioning Chamber

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Barak Caine

Document Summary

Instrumental conditioning- animal must do something to learn, but does not change the environment. Classical conditioning (passive)- animal does not need to do anything to learn. Learning is determined by the consequences of behavior (reward enhances learning) Reinforcers enhance learning, increase the probability of the behavior that proceeded that reinforcer. Duration: . 5 sec (iconic- sensory, visual), 2-3 sec (echoic- perception, must be retrieved from memory) Function: briefly stores impressions so they overlap and appear continuous. Function: temporary storage for information in use; working memory . Cervantes (?) have greater short term memory. Function: storing huge quantities of information, experiences, skills. Declarative- recall specific facts (say or write memory, ex of not declarative: knowing a person"s face but not knowing from where) Clustering & chunking: phone numbers, years, etc. Narrative: darwin used a boat, skinner used a box, watson used a baby. Ex: look at a map and immediately answer a very specific question about the map.