One of the learning outcomes of Introduction to Psychology is for students to a
One of the learning outcomes of Introduction to Psychology is for students to apply psychological concepts to their personal and professional life, and the Psych Connections will help you do this.
This Psych Connection will help you connect concepts from the Memory chapter, the Learning chapter and the Brain, Mind and Behaviour chapter of your ebook to your personal and/or future professional life. Please answer these questions with support from the content you learned in the course, and then submit this to the D2L dropbox before the due date and time noted on your Weekly Schedule.
- Consider the different memory techniques you learned about in our Memory content (the ebook and mini lecture). Describe 3 specific techniques you can use to improve your study habits as a student and briefly discuss how one of these could be helpful in your future career (8 marks total. 2 marks each for the three techniques and 2 marks for how it might be helpful in your future career).
Use retrieval clues. Having methods that I can use to recall information that I know in moments that I may feel more stressed than usual can help me with school tests or exams as well as beneficial to my mental health overall.
Space out study times. Spacing out study times can prevent me from burning out feeling tired or stressed out which are all things that can decrease my performance when it come to studying as a student.
Encode deeply. Memory is shaped by how you choose to encode information. Making the material meaningful by elaborating on it and connecting concepts to my own life and what I already know. Will help make studying easier.
- Please complete each of the following:
- a) In your own words, differentiate (what is similar and what is different) between Classical Conditioning and Operant Conditioning.
- Classical conditioning involves an involuntary behavior and a response.
- Operant conditioning involves tying a reward or consequence to a behavior.
- In both classical conditioning and operant conditioning conditioned responses diminish when conditioning factors are withdrawn. The same behaviors will also recover spontaneously when conditioning is reapplied.
- In classical conditioning the learner is the object, while in operant conditioning the learner is subjected to the consequence.
- classical conditioning associates two stimuli while operant conditioning associates an action with a consequence.
- b) Describe how you have learned something in your life through each of the four types of operant conditioning. Please provide your own example (not one from the ebook or mini lecture) for each of the 4 types of Operant Conditioning (positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, positive punishment and negative punishment). (12 marks total. 4 marks for part a, and 2 marks for each of the types of OC in part b).
- Positive Reinforcement – good grade after a test
- Negative Reinforcement – Received money to keep secret for sibling.
- Positive punishment – Lecture or time ou