PSY 352 Lecture 1: 1 - Introduction to Learning and Memory
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More practical - easier to control and manipulate. Behaviorist ideologies - avoiding speculating on mental states - assumption that is made that animals don"t have emotion (up for debate) Why the switch between animal vs human research? interest in human cognitions and thought processes - better to study humans when interested in humans. Memory: storing and retrieving information, retention of information, selecting, coding, and retrieving information . If you can"t learn anything, you won"t remember anything. And if you can"t remember anything, you won"t be able to learn. They both come together to make one process. Personal details our friends, families, food preferences, movies, ect. Classes, vocabulary (80,000 words on average), color names, associations. How long does it take to access our memories only milliseconds we can usually access information without any delay. We wouldn"t be able to learn new skills, new words, ect.
