PSYC 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Billiard Ball, Spatiotemporal Pattern, Causal Structure

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 355
• Professor: Valerie Ann Kuhlmeier

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This week(cid:495)s lab session: launching events, association and causality, inferring causal structure, human cognitive development: detecting blickets, launching events. Hume (1748): (cid:498)motion in the second billiard ball is a quite distinct event from the the other(cid:499) The events themselves do not present causality . Michotte (1900s): yes, the perception is an illusion. But, it(cid:495)s a perception of a causal this (cid:494)causal impression(cid:495). interaction. And, it does take a particular type of spatiotemporal pattern to give us motion in the first; nor is there anything in the one to suggest the smallest hint of the visual input we get is just coincident motion. Studies with human infants (leslie & keeble, 1987) Operant conditioning: process by which a change in behaviour occurs because the behaviour produces some consequence. Thorndike, hull: proposed that animals formed s-r associations (e. g. , the lights are associated with the response of lever pressing)