Learning Theory 10/13/07

Behaviorism.

pg 35 and 37



punishment v negative reinforcement - both involve something negative, involves something that is not wanted, that effects subject negatively.



punishment - adding the negative item

negative reinforcement - take away the negative item


Religion based on behaviorism?

The New Stuff.........
Theory comes from the development of the computer - the model is based on the processes of the computer.

Different parts of the computer

input - processor - short term storage - long term storage - output
keyboard - CPU - RAM - ROM - screen

Sensory registers - eyes, ears, nose, mouth, skin (input)
duration - about one second (very limited)
capacity - unlimited continuously coming, but does not stay for long.

Working Memory - short term (RAM)
duration - 40 seconds
capacity - 5 +/- 2 GAMiller - re the 7 +/- 2 relating to sounds

Long term Memory - (ROM)
duration - unlimited
capacity - unlimited problem is accessing memories, but it is still there.

Process of encoding - adding meaning - information must be reformatted to be compatible with information that is already in out long term memory. Pass from receptors to working memory by adding meaning.

Page 78

relatively little is known about the sensory memories corresponding to the other senses...

most studies done on sight - vision, not many studies done on the memories corresponding to hearing, taste, smell and so on and so on and so on........

kinetic memory - talk about it more, but he thinks it's extremely important.

Storage - retaining information in long term memory, likely done in a variety of ways - images, semantically, verbal. the more ways a given piece of information is stored in the memory - the more readily accessible that information is.

Retrieval - bringing information from long term memory to working memory - also used in the process of encoding - have to retrieve to add meaning to new information

Automaticity - practicing or rehearsing some information to the point that it can be retreived quicklessly and effortlessly.

Having relevant retreival cues - Please, Excuse, My Dear, Aunt Sally.

Interfereance
Decay

No class next week.