PSY 113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Little Albert Experiment, Circular Reasoning, Opponent Process
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If you study when you are hungry, you will be hungry when you take the exam. The old man hobbled across the room and picked up the valuable ______. **more likely to remember something if there is a retrieval cue or if a sentence is more complicated** Forgetting: decay, proactive interference, retroactive interference (displacement, example: study for quiz 1, then study for quiz 2, now you can"t remember the material from quiz 1, the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon. Mnemonic devices: acronyms, the method of loci, example: livingroom: ivan pavlov and dog, example: kitchen: john b. watson and little albert , example: bedroom: b. f skinner and pigeon. Theories of motivation: drive-reduction, unpleasant physiological state that motivates an organism to reduce it i. Problems: hypothetical construct (drive can"t be measured or logically seen, circular reasoning (no explanation of behavior, error of logic)
