PSY 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Claude Shannon, Digital Electronics, Cognitive Revolution

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20 Mar 2018
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Predictions arising from general principles / laws sometimes failed: Behaviorist claim - association is all that is necessary for learning. Should be able to pair new cs with and old cs and get same cr (c. f. , leon kamin) Rat in cage -> light + shock (tone) -> fear. Rats failed to learn new association: the original cs (light) blocked associating the second cs (tone) with the us (shock). Must link cs to the us that originally produced the ur. Behaviorist claim - learning is consequence of repeated association. Rat & blue liquid + sweet taste, only drink blue liquid -> association & informational utility pigeon & sweet blue liquid + aversive chemical, only drink sweet liquid. Counter-example - 1-trail learning & again, importance of information (john garica) Diff species are biologically constrained to pay attention to/perceive diff types of info. Suggested that there"re internal & differential contributions for organisms, can"t generalize law of learning .

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