PSYC 325 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Habituation, Latent Inhibition, Artificial Neural Network

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

Document Summary

Define and describe the processes of generalization and discrimination. Generalization: transferring past experiences to new situations and problems. Requires finding an appropriate balance between specificity (knowing how narrowly a rule applies) and generality (knowing how broadly the rule applies) Discrimination: the perception of differences between stimuli. Recognizing that two stimuli are different and knowing which to prefer. Explain why generalization occurs by describing the generalization gradient and the concept of a consequential region. Generalization gradient: graph showing how physical changes in stimuli correspond to behavioural response changes. Shows the strength of an organism"s expectation that the consequences of one stimulus will follow other, similar stimuli. Consequential region: set of all stimuli that have the same consequence as the training stimulus set of stimuli in the world that share the same consequences as a stimulus whose consequence is already known. Describe and evaluate the concept of a discrete-component representation, and understand its limitations in accounting for generalization.