PSY 538 Quiz 5 Memory Flashcards
How is memory typically studied
Memory is typically studied as a discrete and unitary subject matter.
How is memory seen
Memory is seen as a capacity, and memories often serve as independent variables explaining subsequent behavior.
What is behavior
Behavior is any activity of an organism that can enter into these orderly relations.
Behavior lies on a continuum of observability, but where it lies on this continuum depends upon characteristics of the observer or of his tools of measurement; it is not an essential or intrinsic property of the response.
The point of behavior being on a continuum of observability
What is private behavior
Private behavior is simply unobserved behavior, not unobservable behavior
What is a private event
A private event, then, is one that lies below the threshold of observability for a particular observer using particular tools.
something about the experience has been stored inside us in our “memory banks,” “memory storehouses,” or, simply, our brains.
the commonest interpretation of the changes
What are the two classes of contingencies for which the term “memory” is commonly said to be required
Stimulus control and Problem Solving
Why does a physiological explanation supplement but not replace a behavioral one?
accounts of this sort are not necessary if our criterion of explanation is to be the prediction and control of behavior.
Three alternatives to the decay hypothesis
- Failure to reinstate all of the relevant stimulus conditions.
- Competing responses to the same stimuli.
- Competing responses conditioned to other stimuli.
What is a problem
a person is faced with a problem when reinforcement is
contingent, in part, upon conditions that they do not currently obtain.
an acquired strategy of manipulating or supplementing discriminative stimuli until a particular response in the repertoire of the organism becomes prepotent over the myriad other responses that are changing in probability.
Problem solving
