PSYC1024 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Classical Conditioning, Experiential Learning, Learning Curve
2 Jan 2019
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Learning is a psychological variable needed to understand the manifestation of low m. Learning is the part nurture- it is the things which we experience throughout our lives. A strict definition is that learning is the acquisition of knowledge (things we can repor. Learning is a (relatively) permanent change across time in behaviour due to exp. Thus, a psychologist (or anyone else for that matter) knows that an organism has of experience. Importantly, this is the only way of knowing (behaviour) Put another way, how would you know that an organism had learnt some impossible to know. E. g. to find out if students learnt anything in an english class, you administer an exam. Behaviourism is an approach to psychology which says that there is little point in inves behaviour is all that matters. If we want to know how organisms learn, we should investigate their behaviour.
