PSYC20007 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Bumblebee, Waggle Dance, Classical Conditioning

• School: University of Melbourne
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC20007
• Professor: All

Document Summary

In pursuing a goal, organisms must overcome initial fascination (attention) to salient but irrelevant attributes: organisms must figure out what is relevant for achieving a particular goal. How we know attention is important for learning: 4 experimental effects showing, trade-offs between salience and validity. Increased validity increased utilisation: decreased validity decreased utilisation. Increased salience increased utilisation: decreased salience decreased utilisation, validity & salience interact. If a large number of potential cues & potential outcomes or actions or categories, e. g. language learning: co-occurrences lead to a strengthening between cues & outcomes, attentional learning theory. Inference by exclusion: learning by exclusion based on what is already known (our expectations) Function learning tasks: designed to tap into people"s underlying expectations, pattern prebuilt into experiment, our experience is enhanced through interaction with design that is consistent with expectations, designs conforming to peoples" expectations are easier to use.