GE CLST 73B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Detection Theory, Eyeblink Conditioning, Habituation

• School: UCLA
• Department: General Education Clusters
• Course: GE CLST 73B
• Professor: chandler

Document Summary

Easier to conduct experiments on semantic memory instead of episodic. Word list - decide whether a word is from the list (old) or not (new) Miss (forgot the word) vs false alarm (mistakenly think new word was on the list) Neurons fire when they detect something familiar; fire less when new information is heard. According to sdt, your brain does reasonable things (you set a criterion) given a certain stimulus. New bell curve and old bell curve overlap, the overlap is where the false alarms and misses are. signal to noise ratio is compromised when there is too much overlap.