Learning
What is the definition of learning?
Relatively permanent change in an
organism’s behavior due to experience
Behavior is what if followed by reinforcement?
strengthened
Bottom-up Processing is?
analysis that begins
with the sense receptors and works up to the
brain’s integration of sensory information
What is the simplified 3 step process of memory?
Encoding - Storage - Retrieval
What animals did professor snow work with in Grad school?
Define Unconditioned Stimulus
automatically
and naturally triggers a response
The addition of a desirable stimulus to
increase the occurrence of a behavior
Positive (added) Reinforcer
Difference between sensation and perception?
Sensation: sensory receptors receive and
represent stimulus energy
Perception: organizing and interpreting
sensory information
conscious memory also known as
Declarative memory
What is the evil snail in your ear called?
The cochlea
You investigate a dark corner of the closet,
and a mouse runs out and startles you. Now,
whenever you investigate the closet, you
prepare to see a mouse. What is the unconditioned response?
Being startled
behavior is guided toward closer
approximations of a desired goal
Shaping
What is opponent-processing theory?
Some neurons are turned on or off by color
people are more likely
to rate statements as
fact if they have heard
or read them before
Propaganda effect
The Hippocampus is responsible for what?
You smell a cake baking and your stomach
rumbles what is the conditioned response?
Your stomach rumbling
Fastening your seatbelt to
turn off the beeping noise is what type of reinforcement?
Negative Reinforcement
Small amplitude waves produce what kind of colors?
Dull colors
If you were to study underwater and later take a test on land, how would you do compared to your peers who also studied underwater and took the test underwater?
Poor or not as well
What breed of dog does Professor Snow's mom own?
Rottie!
tendency for stimuli like CS
to elicit similar responses
Generalization
Reinforces a response
after an unpredictable number of responses
Variable Ratio (VR)
What are rods?
What are cones?
Rods: detect black, white, grey, peripheral retina receptors, and are used for movement and twilight conditions
Cones: detect color, near the center of the retina, for daylight and well light conditions
How can you use encoding specificity to your
advantage as a college student?
Give your information context- study in the same location you would take your test in.
Name the naughty nine
1. Thing, something
2. get, got, gotten
3. Rep. of same word
4. Person's diagnoses as a descriptor
5. etc.
6. you
7. Contractions
8. Rhetorical questions
9. very