PSY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Visual Short-Term Memory, Iconic Memory, Classical Conditioning

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 110
• Professor: Rod Gillis

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Habituation/sensitization- nothing bad happens, you ignore the stimulus. I(cid:374)sight lear(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:894)kohler(cid:859)s ape(cid:895)- apes see something and learn without being taught. Associative learning- pavlovian- dog saliva experiment- unconditioned stimulus leads to unconditioned response- create pairing and then conditioned stimulus leads to conditioned response (salivate to bell)- thus the conditioned stimulus will elicit the same response as the unconditioned stimulus. Phobias can be passed genetically or through classical conditioning- mother scared of bird. Know about thorndike, his puzzle boxes and his law of effect and how that law provides definitions for reward and punishment. know the basics of b. f. skinner"s work on the schedules of reinforcement including the 4 types of partial reinforcement- Fixed ratio, how many times the animal has to press the lever to get food, Fixed interval- every 5 mins animal gets food. Know the difference between negative reinforcement- take away something bad and punishment- taking away something good.