PSYC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Elizabeth Loftus, Operant Conditioning, Classical Conditioning
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False memories- belief in an event that did not happen. People told by a family member they were lost in a mall at age 5, when they were not. After 2 weeks, some people (7 of 24) recall" very specific details of this event". Thinking about it and imagining it can make it happen. Usually benign, but this does demonstrate unreliability of memory. Learning: an enduring change in behavior or knowledge that is due to experience. The way we adapt to our changing environment. Studied literature and wanted to be a writer. Wanted to change the world; initially felt that being a writer was the best way to do this; after reading watson, believed that psychology was. Operant conditioning: learning in which responses come to be defined by their consequences; Your own actions (rather than events) produce outcomes. First actions are spontaneous rather than elicited.
