Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Classical Conditioning, Availability Heuristic, Sensory Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

One stimuli elicits a response that was originally elicited only by the other elicited stimuli. Cs still present when ucs is present. Learning occurs if delay 2/3 sec or less. Cs and ucs present at same time. Chain of events which has 2 cs stimuli. Expands influence of classical conditioning on behavior . Subject is given a reinforcement to a behavior after a variable amount of time has passed. Child forgot to clean room, no tv negative punishment. Storage retaining info over a period of time. Failure in any of these processes can result in memory failure. Dr. thompson psychologist studied human memory. Accused of sexual assault and brought in for question. Matched perfectly with victims descript of perpetrator. Alibi: doing a live tv interview on how to better remember faces. Victim had watched the interview just prior to incident. Holds information we a conscious of at a given time memory codes: second stage of memory 7 items +/- 2.