PSYC 1001 Lecture 6: Set 6 Notes Nov 2 and 4

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: Chris Motz

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Note: this is the beginning of the material for the final exam. Chapter 6: learning: behavioural theory & foundations of the process of learning. Skinner & operant conditioning (nature & function: bandura & observational learning. Learning is an adaptive process in which the tendency to perform a particular behaviour is changed by experience. Learning: behavioural theories attempt to relate units of behaviour, called responses, to units of the environment, called stimuli (the plural of stimulus). Focusing upon explaining the behaviour and predicting future behaviour (relating future stimuli to future responses) Learning is an adaptive process : evolutionary theories would focus on the adaptive aspects of learning to survival. Organisms that were able to learn (i. e. determine relations among events) were able to survive in a changing environment. But learning still occurs even if the environment is not changing the organism. Learns that the environment has not changed. (the bear and the stream)