PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Smoke Detector, Zygosity, Sickle-Cell Disease

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3100
• Professor: Pat Barclay

Document Summary

Lecture 7- adaptive on average & non-adaptive: example: head and tails you get heads he gives you 20, you get tails you give him 2, a good decision can sometimes result in a bad outcome. Example: rabbit hears something could be the wind or a predator. Acts like present hit (correct acceptance false positive. Predators is absent miss false positive correct rejection: organisms will develop a bias that is why it will always run, beneficial to run, reduce the amount of times it will be eaten, you get bias decision making. Ca(cid:374) (cid:271)e (cid:272)alled sig(cid:374)al dete(cid:272)tio(cid:374), error (cid:373)a(cid:374)age(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, rise (cid:373)a(cid:374)age(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, pas(cid:272)al"s (cid:449)ager. What"s (cid:271)etter ha(cid:448)e s(cid:373)oke dete(cid:272)tor to ha(cid:448)e false positi(cid:448)e or (cid:373)iss a real fire. Reed warbler comes back and there is another egg cuckoo egg could be in the nest and kill all the other eggs. Act like egg is present hit false positive (reject egg)