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PSYC 001 General Psychology

I understand the confidence-rating system that will be used on exams.

• A. I strongly agree
• B. I agree
• C. I don’t know
• D. I disagree
• E. I strongly disagree

Next week

• Monday: No homework J

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• Tuesday: Exam 1

– 70 or so questions – Bb 1 (Psychics); Units 1-4; 7; and 17 (Mod 57/58)

• Wednesday: No quiz J

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• Thursday

– Unit 6: Learning

2 Exam 1 Study Plan

• 1. Decide what you want to learn (and why)
• 2. Make an explicit plan: what, where, when

(vary location). NO MARATHONS. Think training, not “working on.”

• 3. Transform content into tools
• 1. Flash cards
• 2. Open-ended questions
• 3. “Draw a…” exercises
• 4. AVOID RE-READING, most of the time

Exam 1 Study Plan

• 5. Avoid “the groove” (or fluency)

– Interleave topics within psychology – Interleave psychology with other subjects

• 6. Do not confuse

interleaving with multi-tasking

• 7. Think VERY hard about using a

computer (unless it contains tools): when in doubt, don’t.

3 Social Inhibition

Social inhibition: Performance is disturbed

Social Facilitation

Social facilitation: performance is enhanced

I understand the confidence-rating system that will be used on exams.

• A. I strongly agree
• B. I agree
• C. I don’t know
• D. I disagree
• E. I strongly disagree

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Confidence Rating on PSYC 001 Exams: "A" or nothing

Letter Rating

Percent of the question’s points…

If correct If incorrect A I’m really unsure, and probably guessing 100% I think I am right (this is the default) 100%

Big Dog Alien Abduction

Heart Rate (HR) Skin Conductance (SCR) Left-Lateral Frontalis (LF) EMG

5 Alien Abduction

Sleep Paralysis § Dissociation § Absorption § Magical Ideation “The script-driven imagery protocol reflects the emotional significance of a memory, not necessarily its veracity.”

McNally et al., 2004

Learning? Memory? Cognition?

What do psychologists mean by the term, learning, and how is it different from memory? What’s cognition got to do with it?

Term Definition Learning the relatively permanent change in knowledge

• r behavior that is the result of experience

Memory the ability to store and retrieve information over time Cognition the processes of acquiring and using knowledge

Comparing Conditioning

• Classical:
• Operant:

6 Pavlovian Analysis of Salivation

Food Footsteps Salivation Salivation

Unconditioned Conditioned

= UCS = UCR = CS = CR

Classical Conditioning

Unconditioned Stimulus Conditioned Response Conditioned Stimulus Unconditioned Response

There is no "unlearning" (Fig. 7.4)

7 Little Albert Define, distinguish

Generalization the tendency to respond to stimuli that resemble the original conditioned stimulus Discrimination the tendency to respond differently to stimuli that are similar but not identical.

Classical Conditioning, Acquisition: Fear Learning

Unconditioned Stimulus Conditioned Response Conditioned Stimulus Unconditioned Response Loud Noise Fear Rat, Rabbit, or Any Furry Object Fear

8 Little Albert Most Common Fears & % of People Reporting them

• 22% Bugs, Mice, Snakes, Rats
• 18% heights
• 12% water
• 11% public transportation (e.g., flying)
• 9% storms
• 8% closed places
• 8% speaking in public
• 7% tunnels or bridges

(40% of people with fears meet criteria for phobia)

Classical Conditioning SELLING

Unconditioned Stimulus Conditioned Response Conditioned Stimulus Unconditioned Response