CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Enculturation, Operant Conditioning, Observational Learning
27 Feb 2016
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Cognitive systems: transforms things in the environment to internal representations, turns desire to act into physical changes in the environment. Brain, long-term memory, short-term memory: animal, software. Human memory of fact and perceptions (not skills: sensory memory. Like a scratchpad, that can be overwritten with new things. It is rewritten every few seconds by new perceptions: short-term memory. Some things from it end up being long-term memories: long-term memory. Probably stored forever, though we may have trouble with retrieval. Memories in distributed systems: books, brains, fingers, notes, arrows and signs. Learning: learning is changing memory with the purpose of preparing a mind for better action in the future, there are several kinds of learning. Learning: habituation: diminution of a behavioral response with repeated simulation, ex. The first time you hear a loud noise, you jump, but afterword you don"t jump. Learning: sensitization: when a behavioral response is amplified by repeated exposure, ex.
