PSYCO381 Lecture Notes - Key 2, Red Color, Fear Conditioning
26 Apr 2014
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Test cognition with particular predicted behavioural outcomes: animal cognition uses theory and models. Explain behaviour that cannot be explained through simple learning mechanisms. The ability to recall or respond to information presented earlier. Inferred when current behaviour influenced by previous experience. Short-term memory, held long enough to complete the task at hand. Memory for well-learned tasks and skills (hm: could get better at a task) Memory about the world ( hm: didn"t remember anyone) Store of information necessary for functioning within our culture. Procedure: had to choose one of three doors that was signaled to have food. Signal was on briefly: hunter (1913) tested memory in animals ( rats, dogs, & raccoons were subjects, duration between the signal offset and choice was varied. Procedure: light comes on one of the doors stay for (10s, 20s,30s, etc) wait for sometime now pick one of three door where you saw the light reinforced if correct.
