PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Albert Bandura, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Observational Learning

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Learning: relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience. Associative learning: linking 2 events that occur closer in time, ex. Getting the dog to do a trick and giving him the bone as a reward: associating bone and trick. How do we learn: through association, classical conditioning, ex. hearing the fire alarm and knowing you have to leave, through consequences, operant conditioning, ex. Touching something hot and knowing not to touch it anymore (negative: ex. Doing good on a test and getting a reward (positive: through acquisition of mental info that guides behavior, cognitive learning, ex. Somebody kills someone and goes to jail: observational. Behaviorism: psychology should be an objective science, studies behaviors without taking mental processes into account, pavlov, watson and skinner. Stages of cc: acquisition, process of learning to associate 2 things together. Spontaneous recovery: reappearance of a weakened cr after a pause. Generalization: other stimuli similar to the cs (ex.