PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Edward Thorndike, Little Albert Experiment, Contiguity

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Christopher Miners

Document Summary

Learning as a process, and origins of learning theory: defi(cid:374)e (cid:862)lea(cid:396)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g(cid:863) Behavioural conditioning, including stimulus and response, acquisition, and generalization: describe how behaviours are acquired (and extinguished) through classical conditioning. How behaviours are learned through use of rewards and punishments: describe how behaviours are acquired through operant conditioning, including shaping and chaining. Topic 4: other forms of learning: defi(cid:374)e (cid:862)lea(cid:396)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g(cid:863, describe and contrast classical and operant conditioning, describe observational learning, imprinting, instinctive drift, and cognitive approaches to learning, including the concepts of latent learning and cognitive maps. More-or-less permanent = if we required some degree of permanence, the operational. Nature-nurture debate was from the renaissance philosophies of the 17th century. Nativist - ren descartes (1596-1650) proposed that almost all behaviour was reflexive or due to inborn ideas. He and the other nativists suggested that we are born the way we are and our life experiences play little or no role in shaping our behaviour.