PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Reticular Formation, James Olds, Reinforcement

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Harvey Swadlow

Document Summary

Suppresses but does not extinguish undesirable behavior. Can suppress undesirable behavior long enough for positive reinforcement to shape a new, competing behavior. Emotional responses that are incompatible with new learning. Finally understand how to do a math problem. Does not look like an s-shaped learning curve. Development of cognitive maps of the environment in our heads. Increase probability of behavior that we were just taught. James olds and peter milner wanted to find out if electrical stimulation of a part of the brain (reticular formation) would help rats learn a maze. Rats had a choice of food/sex or electricity. Childhood memory: limited to around 2. 5 to 3 years old. Dreams: won"t remember it unless you rehearse it right after you wake up. Implanted memories: you get convinced of a memory or lack of memory. Can fabricate an untrue or morphed story. There"s no way that you personally can truly know if it happened or not.