PSYC 318 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Reinforcement Learning, Operant Conditioning, Chromosome
12 Feb 2020
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Thursday, january 16th - review of neuroscience techniques. Thursday, january 23rd - review of reinforcement learning theory & dopamine signaling. Thursday, january 30th - pre-midterm 1 review session. Thursday, february 20th - review of hunger circuitry. Thursday, february 27th - review of hippocampal physiology and memory. Thursday, march 12th - pre-midterm 2 review session. Thursday, march 26th - review of basic cell biology. Thursday, april 2nd - review of wayne sossin"s material. Thursday, april 9th - pre-final exam review session. Learning occurs through reinforcement: reinforcement (also called reward in literature): what makes it so that a random behaviour becomes recurring. In other words: likelihood of repeating an action depends on whether the action was reinforced. For example, operant conditioning works in this manner. Neurons largely consist of organic molecules made of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, Cell mass breakdown: 70% water, 30% dry weight: Proteins are what do things in cells.
