LING 3Q91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Programmed Learning, Verbal Behavior, Humanistic Psychology
1 Jan 2019
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Pavlov classical conditional is where an animal can be trained to produce a behaviour in response to a stimulus. Humans build an array of stimulus-response connections to learn anything. Complex behaviour learnt by building up chains of responses. You say it without saying it outloud. Learning to speak is a matter of. Word association experiments demonstrate people respond in predictable ways to separate words (verbal stimuli) with other words (verbal response or reaction) Reinforcement either strengthens behaviour or reduces the chance of re- occurrence. Carefully designed programs of step by step reinforcement for the learning of any subject. Example learning addition and subtraction before quadratic equations. Nim learned some 125 basic asl signs but continued to act like a chimp. Learning is a process of relation new items or events to preexisting concepts. A concept = the general idea or meaning which is associated with a word.
