CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Operant Conditioning, Cultural Learning, Observational Learning
1 Mar 2017
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Transforms things in the environment to internal representation. Turns desires to act into physical changes in the environment. Animal brain, long-term memory, short-term memory. Distributed system paper, brain, disk, environment manipulation. Whe(cid:374) you hear it (cid:271)ut it is delayed (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause you are(cid:374)"t allowi(cid:374)g it to pro(cid:272)ess. Some of the memory end up becoming long-term memories. May stay in memory forever but might have trouble retrieving the memory. Hippocampus appears to the important for transforming short-term memories into long-term memories. Procedural memory: responsible for knowing how to do things, stores information on how to perform certain procedures, such as walking, talking and riding a bike. When you learn, your brain is preparing you for the future. When a response is amplified exposure to a stimulus: ex: at first you can barely feel a vibrating phone in your pocket, but eventually you become very sensitive to it.
