PSYC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Dishabituation, Habituation, Implicit Memory
6 Apr 2018
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Reaction to the study of measuring the unconscious. Ex: if i offer an extra point, will more students raise their hand? . Copying of behaviors when you see if someone else is rewarded or punished. Learning about a stimulus in the external world. Repeated exposure to same stimulus decreases attentional and behavioral responses. Used in studies to see if infants could tell differences in animal faces. Repeated exposure to same stimulus increases attentional and behavioral responses. Learning the relationship between two pieces of information. Lab technicians feed dogs everyday while playing metronome. Overtime, dogs started drooling at the sight of a lab coat. Positive reinforcement: adding a desirable stimulus to increase a behavior. Negative reinforcement: taking away an undesirable stimulus to increase a behavior. Positive punishment: adding an undesirable stimulus to decrease a behavior. Negative punishment: taking away a desirable stimulus to decrease a behavior. Primary reinforcers : satisfy biological needs that release dopamine in the nucleus accumbens (food, water)
