PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Mirror Neuron, Iconic Memory, Observational Learning
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If there was a monkey that was kept in captivity, and released into the wild and sees a monkey in the wild be afraid of a snake, then it can learn to be afraid of snakes too. Modeling-- the process of observing and imitating a certain behavior. > ex: bobo doll experiment- a study of aggression. If adults were punished for behavior, they children were less likely to copy their behavior. Activated when we watch people do stuff. Similarity of representation even if you only watched it. Using tms has knocks out mirror neurons and prevents people to learn by observation. Didn"t notice that the person they were initially talking to was no longer the same person. Just because we see something, doesn"t mean it is in memory (failures to encode) Memory is not necessarily reliable (ex: eyewitness testimony, picking someone out of a line up) Just because we see something doesn"t mean we are encoding it in our memory.
