PSY362H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Metacognition, Internal Fixation
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Highest level: memory ability and ecology, migrating birds, food storing birds, similarity and difference in memory ability among species, recognition memory, metacognition ability to assess our own cognition, episodic memory daily experiences. Discrimination learning: discrimination learning, compound cs, tone 1 + light, tone 2 +light, only responded to compound cs (tone 1 + light) and tone 1, boundary condition, tone 1 reliably predicts air puff (100%); light did not reliably (50%); tone 2 never did. 2nd expt: light more reliable predictor (50%) than either stimulus alone (25% each, light present in 2/4 cases, tone 1 presented in , tone 2 presented in , not just learned perceptual stimuli, learning based on predictive value of cs. Pigeons memorized features or combinations of features unique to single slides as well as features common to many slides: use memorialization & generalization both simpler than abstract learning, if formed abstract categories, then would perform equally in all categories variability.
