practice sacs error log

a consequence in operant conditioning

shapes future behaviour and is essential to learning

differences between observational and operant

• observational is vicarious, operant is active

• observational does not need to be expressed in behaviour, cognitive form of learning

how does method of loci improve encoding

• links a well known place to a mental image, increasing elaborative rehearsal of it

how does method of loci improve storage

• makes additional links between item and place

• associates them with specific locations on a chosen rout

how does method of loci improve retrieval

• retracing each location acts as retrieval cue

how effective is maintenance rehearsal at transferring info to LTM

unlikely to be effective because it does not create meaningful connections for the items to existing knowledge

specific language of classical conditioning

• WHAT is the response to

  • i.e salivating to the noise

  • “created an unconditioned resposne of salivation in students mouth in response to wizz fizz"

similarities between songlines and method of loci

• both rely on physical locations to link info

• both rely on retrieval of autobiographical memories

• both methods to enhance encoding, storage retrieval

differences between songlines and method of loci

• method of loci is simple, songlines are complex

• physically walk country, mentally walk in method of loci

  • songlines are oral, method of loci is written

constructing PIF (2023 sac)

• needs to store episodic mem, what it looked like, how it felt

• store semantic mems of features of outback - what did it looked like, specific flowers

• to do act, needs to retrieve both elements

order of brain structure death in alzeihmers

• hippocampus

• cerebral cortex and cerebellum

• affects previously stored LTMs and processing of new STMs