PSYC 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Episodic Memory, Sensory Memory, Semantic Memory

• School: Brock University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1F90
• Professor: Kathryn Belicki John Mitterer

Document Summary

Modules 32-36: memory elaboration read 1-11; 17-22, 27-31, 32-36, Negative reinforcement: going to remove something unpleasant. Negative punishment: going to remove something pleasant. Positive reinforcement: going to present something pleasant. Positive punishment: going to present something unpleasant. Limitations of punishment: punishment produces a temporary suppression of behaviour, punishment produces undesirable emotional side effects, children who are physically punished learn to model or imitate aggressive acts and often become more aggressive towards others. Effective punishment: apply punishment immediately, apply punishment consistently, apply punishment moderately, avoid withholding love, counter condition (reinforce alternative positive behaviours) Partial reinforcement schedules: xed ratio schedule, variable atop schedule, fixed interval schedule, variable interval schedule. Sensory input (bottom-up processing) and memory (top-down processing) together create our experiences. Just as perception is constructive so to is memory (re)constructive. Perceptual illusions are roughly comparable to false memories. Encoding (put into memory) storage (maintain in memory) retrieval (recover from memory)