L3 - Learning to connect the world

Question 1

What does P(O|C) mean?

Answer 1

Probability of outcome given the cue

Question 2

What does P(O|-C) mean?

Answer 2

Probability of outcome given absence of cue

Question 3

How to calculate P(O|C)?

Answer 3

a/(a+b)

Question 4

How to calculate P(O|-C)?

Answer 4

c/(c+d)

Question 5

How to calculate DELTA P (Allan, 1980) ?

Answer 5

P(O|C) - P(O|-C)

Question 6

What is delta P?

Answer 6

A statistic that reflects the relationship between two events

Question 7

What did Shanks say about cue-competition?

Answer 7

• Is where cues are competing with each other or interacting in a way that changes what we believe about the cues.
• Led researchers to start thinking about how humans might learn beyond delta-P statistical model

Question 8

What does the Propositional account say?

Answer 8

Learning is based on reasoning and belief formation. The knowledge is always consciously accessible and behaviour is controllable

Question 9

How does Lovibond (2003) describe the propositional account?

Answer 9

1. Exposure to contingency
2. Trial-by-trial learning process
3. Propositional knowledge
4. Production of response

Only through this conscious belief system do we actually get changes in behaviour

Question 10

What did Lovibond (2003) do?