PSYC 325 Study Guide - Final Guide: Artificial Neural Network, Electronic Component, Dopamine Antagonist

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 325
• Professor: Cindy Barha

Document Summary

What would you need to do to keep your pet healthy: discrimination happens when someone reacts differently to different stimuli, where generalization is when someone makes the same reaction to different stimuli. I would test this by opening two different types of cans or cans with two different opening options (one opens with lever to pull, other needs a can opener). Seeing how my dog reacts to each sound would determine their level of discrimination vs. generalization. I would predict my dog to react the same to both stimuli and generalize: i believe my dogs behaviour is best reflected by a distributed representation model. This model codes information as a pattern of activation. So, what is learned about one stimulus can be transferred to another stimuli, causing generalization.