PSY-2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Childhood Amnesia, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Albert Bandura
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Exam 3 review: clara thought all nurses were young females until a middle-aged male nurse took care of her. Learning is a relatively permanent change in thought or behavior results from experience: not reflex-driven. Spontaneous recovery- cr: cs briefly can elicit the response, extinction suppresses. Extinction- cs alone: after a conditioning, the stimuli is presented alone, presenting the bell for multiple trials. Discrimination: can distinguish between two different stimuli. Little albert- fear response to a white rat and that generalized to other white fluffy things. Cognitive processes: predictability of associations affect strength of cr. Biological processes: associative learning is adaptive, links may extend over several hours, some links are more lkely to form than others. Classical vs operant: classical the emphasis is on automatic response to stimuli as a result of associative learning. Essentially involuntary: operant the emphasis is on controlled behavior enacted by an organism to influence its environment.
