PSYC 2000 : Test 2
Document Summary
Based on our estimation of the frequency or likelihood of an event based on how easy it is to recall relevant information form memory or how it is easy for us to think of related examples. Seeks to explain how animals/humans actually make decisions (psychological model) Encoding the set of mental operations that people perform on sensory information to convert that information into a form that is usable in the brain"s storage systems. Things in the future carry less weight in our mind than things today. Temporal discounting when a previously neutral stimulus, through repeated pairing with the unconditioned stimulus, begins to cause the same kind of involuntary response, learning has occurred. Unconditioned response (ur) the automatic and involuntary response to the unconditioned stimulus. Functional fixedness thinking about objects only in terms of their typical uses. Conditioned response (cr) the response that is given to the conditioned stimulus.
