01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Interference Theory, Sensory Memory, Sketchpad

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: graybrill

Document Summary

Superstitious behavior - behavior linked to reinforcement by sheer: token economies - mental hospital staff can reinforce patients who behave in a desired fashion using tokens, chips, points, or other secondary reinforcers. Secondary reinforcers - neutral objects that patients can later trade in for . Primary reinforcers - items or outcomes that are naturally pleasurable, such as a favorite food or drink. The three systems model of memory: sensory, short-term, and long-term: each system differs in terms of span and duration, sensory memory - very brief storage of perceptual information; each sense has its own form. How can we aid our short-term memory: rehearsal - repeating info to extend the duration of stm. Maintenance rehearsal - repeating stimuli in the original form (e. g. , repeating phone number long enough to dial it) Elaborative rehearsal - linking stimuli in a meaningful way: levels-of-processing model the more deeply we transform info, the better we remember it, long-term memory - permanent store of information.