CAS PS 234 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Classical Conditioning, Cerebral Cortex, B. F. Skinner

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 234
• Professor: Tracy Dunne

Document Summary

Operant conditioning- you are free to do the behavior voluntary reaction to a stimuli behavior associated with consequence. Edward thorndite: cornerstone of operational conditioning, law of effect: behavior -> satisfying consequence = increased likelihood of said behavior. And vice versa, behavior -> negative consequence = decrease likelihood of said behavior: random rewards makes behavior more persistent. Learning is done by expecting a consequence because of a behavior. Long term memory is made in the hippocampus, then stored everywhere in the cerebral cortex (in categories of information) Inch in from your ears, hippocampus (greek for seahorse)