week 6

Question 1

function

Answer 1

leanring is about predicting and controlling the future based on experience in the past

Question 2

classical conditioning pavlovs view rule

Answer 2

CS acquires ability to elicit a response originally elicited by US, if CS and US occur close in time
Pavlov said there is a transfer of ability to elicit the CR, a transfer from the US to the CS
- evidence sold not support pavlovs view that the CR is the same as the UR

Question 3

classical conditioning cognitive view rule

Answer 3

• individual acquires knowledge that the CS predicts the US. knowledge is an intervening variable, between stimulus and response
• this knowledge then influences behaviour - the knowledge produces adaptive behaviour
• doesn’t require that in animals knowledge and prediction are consciously experienced ( as they sometimes are in humans) - animals behave AS IF they could predict the future based on the past

Question 4

conscious cognition

Answer 4

considered and complex thought, predicting & decision making

Question 5

unconscious

Answer 5

memory and language, preferences, rapid decisions that seem not to require thought

Question 6

anthropomorphism

Answer 6

when animals behave like humans

Question 7

contiguity

Answer 7

closeness in time of the CS and US

Question 8

forward conditioning

Answer 8

CS before the US

Question 9

simultaneous pairing

Answer 9

CS and US start together