CAS PS 234 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Seahorse, Edward Thorndike, Short-Term Memory

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

Document Summary

Classical conditioning introduction: associate 2 stimuli together. You do this in such a way so that you respond to 1 stimulus as if it were the other: ex: if you present an air puff into someone"s eye- blink. Play tone and then present puff multiple times- blink to tone. You respond to the tone as if it were the air puff. Anticipate what is coming next: reason it works- predicts/anticipate the next event, completely involuntary response. Emitted - voluntary (operant conditioning: when the rate of us and cs is 1:1 or close to it- you learn it better, faster, classical and operant conditioning often occur simultaneously. Ex: see needle at doctor"s office- classical conditioning: tense feeling. Operant conditioning: turn your head away to no longer see it. Needle signals pain is on the way. Ex: getting a tattoo/drugs injected- see a needle. Classical conditioning: excited feeling: needle signals pleasure is on the way, pavlov: father of classical conditioning.