PSY-1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Cognitive Map, Introspection, Operant Conditioning

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Psychology (A&S)
• Course: PSY-1200
• Professor: Sandberg Elisabeth

Document Summary

Effects of biology and cognition, and learning by observation. Biology, cognition, and learning: biological contraints on conditioning. Limits on classical conditioning: an animal"s capacity for conditioning is constrained by its biology, predispositions prepare it to learn associates that enhance survival, conditioned stimuli have a natural association with the unconditioned stimuli they predict, john garcia. Challenged idea that all associates can be learned equally well. Research supported darwin"s principle of natural selection favoring traits that aid survival: genetic predisposition to associate a cs with a us that follows predictable and immediately is adaptive. Limits on operant conditioning: cognition"s in uence on conditioning. Conditioned likes and dislikes are stronger when people notice/are aware of the associations they have learned. !1: skinner believed that thoughts, perceptions, expectations were a throwback to introspectionism. When one monkey sees, its neurons mirror what another monkey does. Theory of mind: children"s brains enable their empathy and their ability to infer another"s mental state: application of observational learning.