Psych350 Learning and Memory

An exploration of how humans acquire and remember new information, associations and skills with Professor Vivian Ciaramitaro

11/12/2013
by hiumeichow001
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Understanding Gambling Addiction with Operant Behaviorism

From the Clinical Perspective of Instrumental Learning we have learned about the brain reinforcement system and its key role in our survival instinct. Ex: satisfying primary reinforces such as water, food etc. As previously discussed in class our reinforcement can go awry. Past understanding of the classical conditioning and operant conditioning process could help us understand some of the ways in which the reinforcement system can fail. Ex: drug addiction, which is considered a pathological addiction, maintaining the habit despite its consequences. In contrast in behavioral addiction individuals attain positive and negative reinforcement through behaviors. Gambling was one of the examples used to illustrate this type of addiction. Below there is a link redirected to a research study to understand gambling addiction in relation with operant behaviorism.

https://sites.google.com/site/charlesjharwood/understanding-gambling-addiction

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10/27/2013
by hiumeichow001
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Why Your Memories Can’t Be Trusted

Hi Students,

Remember one of the blog posts here talked about how scientists have found that we could ‘implant’ false memories in rats? If you are interested in this topic, please watch the following ted talk sharing by UCI professor Elizabeth Loftus, who research a lot on false memory and eyewitness memory:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tedtalks/mystery-of-memory_b_4159290.html

Enjoy!

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