Woops..Sorry Mom..I Forgot

This week, in psych, we learned about all kinds of memory. Iconic memory, echoic memory, short term memory, and long term memory. When you think about testing your memory, you think it's pretty easy and anyone can do it. However, if I asked you what you had for lunch yesterday, you probably would not be able to tell me. We use all kinds of memory every day. For example, remembering something someone said to you earlier would be echoic memory. Remembering someones ugly hairstyle you saw on the street would be iconic memory. I found a site on National Geographic Magazine online that tests your iconic short term memory. When I tried it, I thought it would be easy. As it turns out, it is far from it. Check it out.

Conditioning

This week in class we learned a lot about conditioning. Conditioning is training an animal to do something by giving their behaviors consequences. These could either be negative consequences or positive consequences, depending on if they did what the person wanted them to do. There are a lot of different ways to condition people too. One show I watch is The Big Bang Theory. In this show, Sheldon decides to try his own experiment and condition Leonard's girlfriend, Penny, by giving her a piece of chocolate every time she does something that he considers "good behavior". The kind of conditioning Sheldon is doing is called operant conditioning. Check it out: