Synapses and Neurotransmitters, they go together like umm some simile….
Music “Nothing With You” by The Descendents
Psychology 3306 Pavlovian Conditioning 05 and Instrumental Condiitoning 01
Pavlovian Conditioning Concludes and Instrumental Conditioning begins. Plus a visit from the Ninja!
Music “Don’t You Love Me” by Big Wheel and the Spokes
Here is the text of Bob Rescorla’s answer about one trial extinction.
“Dave,
I can think of no cases in which one obtains one trial complete extinction.
We have never entertained alphas that high because they would produce wide sweeps in associative strength and yield unstable predictions for many situations.
I would conceptualize flooding not as a case of a high salience but rather as a case of multiple presentations of a stimulus, but neither is really spot on.”
The blackboard diagram of context blocking:
Psychology 3906 – Learning
Learning from an evolutionary perspective. Plus an off the cuff discussion of the movie The DaVinci Code for no apparent reason…
Listen Now
Music “Walk Away” by the Dust Poets
New Episodes this Wednesday
There are midterms in all of my classes early this week. New lectures (or “episodes” if you prefer…) will begin Wednesday.
Bonus Episode – How can Psychologists help designers make better video games?
From the FuturePlay conference my talk on video game design.
Music “Just Because” by One Shot Left
Download the paper.
Powerpoint slides
Psychology 2606 – Neural Communication Concludes
The end of neural communication, in the class, not in your brain hopefully….
Music “Complicated” by Retrograde
Psychology 3306 – Rescorla Wagner Recap
Psychology 3906 – Cognition 02
Part 2 of the Cognition lecture
Music “Freedom for my Soul” by Mark Harold.
Picture of that glass experiment I talked about at the end of the lecture:
Psychology 3306 – Theoretical issues in Pavlovian Conditioning
Rescorla and Wagner came up with this way cool model….
Music “Coffin” by 10 Shot
Psychology 2606 – Genetics and Neural Communication
The end of the stuff on genetics and the beginning of neural communication.
Music “Genetics” by Technetium
Oh and it seems that snake venom contains Cholinesterase which breaks down Ach, so yes, that IS how snake venom works. Oh, and electric eels generate their current using electroplaques.