General info - Test 1 Flashcards
What is anthropomorphism
Can result from assuming animals have mental continuity just like us
George romans and lyod morgan- challenge or support darwin
george- supported
morgan-challenged darwin
Behaviourism of animals
we cant infer anything about the mental skills/ states of animals
Cognitve psychology of animals
we can infer some mental states of behavior
Thorndikes law of effect
behaviours that are rewardrd are more likely to be repeated
contigous and contingent events
contigous- togther
contingent- predict eachother
ecological validity
Testing animals has to be done using pardigms that make sence for the species
What are search images
A template animals use to try to match (improves detection accuracy on things that match the template)
Global and local advantage
global-large shapes first (humans
local - small shapes first (baboons/pigeons)
sign stimulus and superstimulus
sign- stim that animal uses to decide what the sit. is
super- react to this more than the original stim
Psychophysics vs behaviour tests
behaviour- test animals inate responses to dif stiims
psychophysics- train animals to respond differently to dif stimuli
Webers Law
The JND is a fixed proportion of the intensity
Feature integration theory (simple vs conjuctions)
simple-precieved automatically pre attentively
conjunction-require attention and are processed seuencially
supression ratio equation and what represents complete supression
of CS responses/ # of CS responses + # of pre CS responses
SR=0 = complete supression SR=.5 = no supression
positive contigency
CS positively correlated with US, CS predicts US
