PSYC 3450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Striatum, Behaviorism, Phoneme
27 Apr 2017
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Instincts: innate responses to specific stimuli: response is to a specific evoking stimulus, range of evoking stimuli may get larger with increased drive, response will always take a similar form, irrespective of circumstances. Inflexible: an existing instinct can"t be removed, and a new instinct cannot be added. Inflexible in way that response will always be the same (all rat knows is left turn: things can be unlearned (extinction, discrimination) If we are representing many things, and generalizing those representations to some extent, many of our representations are going to overlap and get confused. How do we organize all these representations: storage capacity not infinite, some complex things that we are able to do (like language) seem to involve representations so complex that it"s hard to imagine how we learned them. If, according to the new, cognitive model we discussed last time, we"re sort of constantly generating mental representations, this raises some questions.
