behaviorism, memory, Flashcards
Behaviorism-
environment acts on you/ conditions you to be a certain way
Pavlov
classical conditioning (dog salivating to bell)
Watson
strictly believed in conditioning (little albert experiment)
Bf Skinner
operate conditioning- more likely to do behaviors given positive effect&vice versa (law of effect); positive(give) and negative (take away) punishment and reinforcement
Behavior modification
scheduled reinforcement; continuous and partial(best)
Shaping
teaches complex behavior done in stages (getting pigeon to turn in circle)
Bandura
observational learning (bobo doll) kids do as they see
sensory memory
info comes through senses and gets interpreted and processed
long term explicit
episodic- where and what you did
semantic- factual knowledge
long term implicit
no conscious effort
procedural/motor memory
long term propective
future oriented( remembering to do something)
state dependent memory
ex: depressed people only remember negative
Memory failure
encoding failure- not paying attention, faulty hippocampus
storage decay, interference- interruption of encoding
7 sins of memory
transience(storage decay) blocking(retrieval problem) absent mindedness persistence(post traumatic stress) misattribution(mislocating source-book/movie) bias suggestibility(altering=false memories)