01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Availability Heuristic, Sunk Costs

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Dr.John Ackroff

Document Summary

Why was the dog"s salivating a conditioned response. It was learned through pairings of seeing the handlers and receiving food. We learn about cures that signal that the drug is going to be ingested, and take measures to counteract it"s effects. We take these same measures even after we stop using the drug. What"s the difference between primary and secondary reinforcers. Conditioned taste aversions are frequently learned in a single trial, and are difficult to extinguish. There can be a fairly long time between the cs (food) and the us (illness) You decide to take a refresher course in algebra before taking your next math course. Know the answer but don"t know how. Attention is most closely associated with what aspect of memory. Heuristics are rules of thumb; algorithms are rules or procedures. Algorithms are guaranteed to produce correct (heuristics usually do) but can be more cumbersome to use.