DST 614 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Cognitive Map, Organism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Disability Studies
• Course: DST 614
• Professor: de

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S-o-r psychology stimulus in the world response in the world, nothing in between: works well in skinner box with pigeons and rats. Organism in the s-r: 0 organism the o is how you think, s stimulus. Called latent learning: organism learn without reinforcement, completely outside of the s-0-r model, built a cognitive map of the maze and when important and needed to use the rats used it. Indicate a great deal of learning and reflection can cause behavior to occur without reinforcement. Preparedness and phobias: we believe humans are scared of snakes, come ready to be afraid into the world. Memory capacity to store and retrieve information in the mind and pull it out and make use of it. Paradox of memory: some people have the capacity to remember all sorts information. Sensory memory, short term, long term: each of these have a different spans of information they can hold and duration.