Nash Equilibrium

Nash Equilibrium – A state in which no two opposing sides can get ahead of the other without the other being shorted. This applies as long as neither side changes their strategy.

Game Theory – the application of mathematics to peoples strategies when faced with games or analytical tasks. The results depend on the participants choices.

Prisoner’s Dilemma – Two players, each having two or more options. The outcome relies on what both players decide

Serendip – I used the Nash equilibrium, I knew the computer was going to cooperate on the first move. So I, in turn cooperated and we both gained 3 coins. I took the safe route and decided to compete in the second round which paid off because I received 5 coins putting me in the lead at 8. The computer program and I both went the safe route from here on out both choosing to compete and receiving 1 coin the rest of the game.

Prisoners dilemma in history definitely played out in the revolutionary war. Generals and leaders had to decide how many soldiers and units they would send forward to defeat the enemy yet lose the least amount of troops themselves. In government politicians must pretend to get along with other candidates while not making the other candidate look better. In economics people must decide the lowest price to sell a product at so that people want to buy their product over a competitors but they still need to make money on it. In my life I face prisoners dilemma when I do trades at the guitar store I want to get something of equal or greater value than what I am trading in but the opposing trader wants to give me something of equal or lesser value.

I thought our oil pricing project was rather interesting. I think if we hadn’t done the project the day before it would have been better. We wouldn’t have had the experience or known the pattern to use to be safe. 

Rorschach Inkblot blog

Thinking about my own results on this test I can not say that I believe it is reliable. Considering the fact that over half of the answers I gave were not even given in the analysis. That is what I wonder, if a person gives answers that are not related to the parameters of the test then how is a psychologist supposed to diagnose them? Slide five is supposed to be the simplest slide to answer, people are supposed to see a butterfly or a bat, but what about the cases like myself, I saw a demon. What does a psychologist do if a random answer that doesn't relate is given? Secondly this test can be researched online and people can find what answers they should be giving in order not to sound crazy. A test where you can not be sure if a person is answering truthfully or just saying what they memorized from the internet is not a reliable test. I believe the same results that this test is trying to achieve could be found in a much more simpler and reliable test. If you were to show patients actual images of people interacting and emoting and then ask them specific questions about the images, you would find a much more reliable result of how the person processes his environmental imagery.

Memory Blog No.2

I would definitely not want to lose my sense of touch, In the experiment my memory triggered right away when I felt the food. I knew exactly what the food was the second I touched it. I think this effected my memory some because I knew what the items should smell like before I smelled them. I definitely knew what to expect. I would never like to lose my sense of hearing, I rely way to much on my sense of hearing since it is one of my strongest senses. If I had to choose I would rather lose my sense of taste. I don’t feel like my sense of taste accounts for much of my sensory memory. Especially because sense of taste changes so your memory of whether or not you like something can change.

Memory Blog

                I believe that Sensory Information Memory is the most important to me. I have always found it easier to commit things to memory when they can be related to a specific sense. When I listen to classical music I can remember geometry and algebra. Country music is reserved for history and globalization. I have noticed that by chewing specific flavors of gum while listening to a teacher and then chewing the same flavor gum when taking a test helps remember information. I always enjoy the fact that I can put my head phones and listen to music, every song seems to bring back a memory from a specific time.

Teaching

I taught my ex-girlfriend when it was ok to touch my car radio and other such controls. By using operant conditioning with positive and negative reinforcement I was able to teach her when I like the radio station changed or the volume adjusted. For example we were driving down the road while the song Black Water by the Doobie Brothers was playing, this is one of my favorite songs. She being the girl she was did not enjoy the song and reached up to change the station. I simply slapped her hand away. After doing this you would expect her to not want to touch the radio dial at all, however when a commercial was on I would simply politely ask her to change the station and when she did I would thank her and smile. After a few car rides she learned not to touch the radio while a song is playing and she also learned so well that the second she heard commercials she would change the station.

Classical Conditioning

Unconditioned Stimulus: Tough hardworking cowboy
Conditioned Stimulus: Marlboro
Unconditioned Response: Wanting to be cool or tough like the cowboy
Conditioned Response: Thinking smoking Marlboro will make you tough and hardworking like the cowboy

Scientific Analysis

Practice really does make perfect

1. The research was about how multiple skills and single motor skills can be more quickly learned by adding a follow through to the motion. This means that by adding a follow through, what you do when swinging a bat or golf club, a motor skill will be more easily committed to memory.
2. The article does not say.
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5. The subjects grasped a robotic arm and made a stroke motion through a force field at a target while continuing into and unopposed follow through motion to one of two separate targets.
6. The experiment found that there was less interference in the brain when a follow through motion was added to the original stoke motion.
7. Yes it is already known that our memories work by preparing us for a future action, by adding the follow through it gave a future action for the subjects to focus on.

Monkeys can learn to see themselves in the mirror

1. Monkeys can be taught to self recognize.
2. 7
3. no
4. The article doesn't specifically say but they are monkeys so it is probably pretty general.
5. The monkeys were sat in front of a mirror and irritated with a laser. The monkeys learned to touch the part of their face that was being irritated by the laser.
6. The monkeys seemed to start learning self recognition
7. Yes

Humans speech's surprising influence on infants

1.  speaking to children affects their learning process
2. the article didn't say
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5. In multiple labs conducted infants were found to advance quicker when spoken to like actual people.
6. Infants not spoken to progressed slower than ones that were.
7. Yes