Psychology 3130A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Clinical Psychology, Centrality

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3130A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

Document Summary

Learning from the past, inferring cause and effect. We need to understand how the world works beyond what your brain understands at birth. Have to have the ability to make causal inferences. Cue contingency and temporal congruity: cues predict because they are associated with outcomes that are close in time (temporal) matters. Blocking one cause prevents another cause: condition a rat to learn that b always predicts o. They will still believe that b causes o, a is viewed as a redundant cue: a was blocked by b. Backward blocking: condition to learn that a|b create outcome. A gets blocked retroactively: goes to say that the causal strength of a cue can be altered even though it is not presented. Lightening or oxygen: oxygen is an enabling condition but not a cause. It allows fire to occur but it is still there when the fire doesn"t occur.