101677 Study Guide - Final Guide: Iconic Memory, Prefrontal Cortex, Tennis Ball
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Group 1 control run in maze once per day and found food in goal box. Group 2 not fed at all while in maze for 7 days, then rewarded in maze from then on. Group 3 not fed at all while in the maze for 3 days, then rewarded in maze from then on. This suggested that learning was not a simple stimulus-response process since the rat in group 2 was clearly learning during the 7 days of starvation. Also not the rapidity of learning once the reinforcement (food) is introduced again highlighting the coding of spatial memory during the earlier days. It is the measuring of the speed and organisation of mental processes. It compares behaviour in simple and choice reaction tasks. E. g. simple reaction will be press button at any light and choice reaction would be pressing one button at red light and another button at green.
