PSY 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Procedural Memory, Memory Span, Mirror Neuron
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Shaping: progressively rewarding a behavior so that behavior is achieved. Continuous: every time the behavior is performed, it is reinforced. Reinforce fixed a number of correct responses. Reinforce unpredictable, changing the number of correct responses. Reinforce at unpredictable, changing the time intervals. Reinforcing a less desired behavior with a more desired one. Reduce the frequency of an operant behavior. The nature of the stimuli we experience. Giving up any effort to control the environment. Based on experience that no control is possible. May rely on activity of mirror neurons. Children use adults and peers as models. Semantic: represent of the meaning of what happened. How deeply information is encoded of processes. Relate new information to things you already know. Maintains information in the short term memory. Limited and can hold 5 - 9 chunks of information at a time. Last about 18 to 20 seconds without rehearsal.