PSYCH 3312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Episodic Memory, Critical Period, Habituation

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3312
• Professor: Rosalee Meyer

Document Summary

Gluck, mercado, & myers ch 12 pg 473-481. Conditioning, skill learning, working memory, episodic and semantic memory. 25 weeks (7 months) gestation: fetus can start to perceive and learn about sounds. Fetuses learn and habituate to auditory stimuli at ~34-36 weeks. Habituation: reduced responding to a repeated stimulus. Evidence of learning: they play sound 1 again, and the babies remember hearing it, so they respond less. Prenatal infants can learn & the learned info affects behavior after birth. Fetuses: the cat in the hat 2x a day for ~6 weeks. The familiar story reinforced a sucking pattern. S (artificial nipple) r (long pause before sucking burst) o (familiar story) S (artificial nipple) r (short pause before sucking burst) o (novel story) Babies showed operant conditioning and ability to discriminate the rhythm and pitch b/t the 2 stories. They have a preference for the familiar. 7) conditioning & skill learning in young kids.