Psy 191 Learning Notes

Ali Kilinc

10/25/2007

Learning Chapter Notes Definition:  You know you have learned when you realize that you are different  Change of behavior through experience or observation  It is possible to learn without experience or observation  Change in behavior or functional experience Types of Learning: o

Classical Learning/Conditioning

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Operate Learning/Conditioning

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Observational Learning

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Latent Learning

Classical Learning/Conditioning: → Also known as: REFLEXIVE Learning → VIKIRIEOUS Learning: something you learn from something, someone ELSE tells you → Classical learning always deals with experience and things like that → Habituation: getting used to thing, over time, or through exposure

 Stimulus Response Bond [SR]: Requires no learning to observe ♦ ie: food -> salivation

 Neutral Stimulus [NR]: Possibly new stimulus ♦ ie: Nurse at the hospital

 Conditional Stimulus [CS]: A NS can turn into a CS, after a process  Conditioned Response [CR]: This results hen a NS are coupled with a CS multiple times 1

Ali Kilinc

10/25/2007 Tips to getting rid of fear: a. Give/get a safe situation, free of the “phobia” b. Give something to relieve the fear Principles of Classical Conditioning: A. Stimulus Generalazation: Once a response is conditioned to a particular stimulus, the same response although weaker, will illicit to similar stimuli B. Stimulas Discrimination: Learned response to stimulus, but not other similar stimuli i.

Selective reinforcement – multiple stimuli, but only follow the “one” with a response

C. Extinction: Elimination of response by withholding the re-inforcer D. Spontaneous Recovery: A weakend response, a temporary return of a response that was previously extinct Operate Learning/Conditioning:

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