PHL 131 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Major Depressive Episode, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Organism
26 Sep 2020
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Learning from the past and making sense of your surroundings. What are the minimum requirements that we need to learn the facts of the world that are not innate: the ability to make causal inferences. People try to link causes and effect with a mechanism that connects and explains. Cue contingency and temporal congruity: cues predict because they are associated with outcomes, close in time (temporal) matters. How good a cue is at predicting an outcome. How do people figure out what the correct cue is. Temporal congruity is a key factor how close in time they are. One cause prevents another cause: train an organism that b causes o situation (basic conditioning) light coming on predicts a buzzer sound, then introduce a/b and o green light red light buzzer. Organism will still believe that b causes o, a is viewed as a redundant cue.
