PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Observational Learning, Organism, B. F. Skinner
12 Dec 2018
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Adaptive process in which the tendency to perform a particular behaviour is changed by experience. Changing the likelihood to engage in a behaviour, based on past experiences. Learning refers to the e ect on behaviour of certain types of interactions between the individual and the environment. Trying to connect responses or behaviours of the organism to the change of the environment, called stimuli. Can help explain a organisms current and future behaviour. Focus on the adaptive aspects of learning to survival. Organisms that could learn (determine relations among events) were able to survive in a changing environment. Even if the environment has not changed, learning still goes on, the organism learns that the environment has not changed. Bear goes looking for food in his environment, walking through the stream and nd a salmon, constant supply. The ah-ha expression does not count as observable learning. Learning can occur even when there is not noticeable change in behaviour.
