Wednesday October 7 2009 When I was younger I could remember anything whether it happened or not Twain Mark announcements National Depression Screening Day 10 4 tom Study Guide and Practice Items Available by noon Group Study Sessions Mon and Wed 6 30 7 30 Fletcher Hall 108 OR Both in Manchester 113A Tutor has study guide and practice items Cognitive Learning Theory Early days of learning focus on behavior just behavior Skinner clip http www youtube com watch v AepqpTtKbwo Watch 2 55 3 58 1950s and more intensely in 1960s many psychologists were becoming aware that cognition unseen mental events thinking could no longer be ignored For Example Things that couldn t be explained by CC and OC alone Latent learning learning that remains hidden until its application becomes useful Edward Tolman showed with rats Insight sudden perception of relationships among parts of a problem allowing solution to come quickly Not result of shaping more of an Aha moment Learned helplessness the tendency to fail to act to escape a situation because of a history of repeated failures in the past Observational Learning Observational learning learn new beh by watching model perform it vs reflexes vs reward and punish Learning performance distinction learning can take place before learned behavior is displayed Bandura s Classic Bobo Doll Study http video google com videoplay docid 4586465813762682933 What does this mean for us today Four Elements of Observational Learning 1 ATTENTION learner must pay attention to model learner must be able to remember what was done 2 MEMORY 3 IMITATION learner must be capable of reproducing actions of model 4 MOTIVATION incentive learner must have desire to perform the action Mysteries of Memory Why can people with amnesia still remember how to ride a bike Can we teach ourselves to remember things better Can you create false memories How reliable is eyewitness testimony Why can I remember my 4th birthday party but I cant remember your name and I just met you Memory Chapter 6 Memory and Its Processes Memory an active mental system ability that allows us to put away info for later use Processes steps of Memory Receive from the senses Encoding put in for short or long timeuse Storage hold Retrieval get out Models of Memory Information processing model assumes processing of info for memory storage is similar to way a computer processes memory series of three stages Levels of processing model model that assumes info that is more deeply processed or processed according to its meaning will be remembered more efficiently and longer Other models exist too Which is right Information Processing Model 3 stages
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