PSY-0001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Albert Bandura, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Discrimination Learning
27 Jan 2017
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Learning is a relatively enduring change in behavior, resulting from experience. Relatively permanent change in behavior or mental state based on experience. Relatively permanent change: can be altered wit future learning. Behavior: some response to a situation or event. Mental state: knowledge, attitude, belief, strategy: behaviorism, founded by john b. watson, focuses on observable aspects of learning. This school of thought was based on the belief that humans and nonhuman animals are born with the potential to learn just about anything. Watson stated that environment and its associated effects on animals were the sole determinants of learning. Psychology: should be an objective science; should study behavior without reference to mental processes. Philosopher john locke: an infant is a tabula rasa (latin for blank slate ) Change in the individual"s behavior or mental state is in response to something in the environment. By controlling the environment, one"s learning can be controlled: cognitive theories of learning:
