PSY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Albert Bandura, Learning Curve, B. F. Skinner

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 110
• Professor: Roderick Gillis

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When a novel stimulation occurs, if nothing bad happens, the animal will. Habituation: decreased response respond less and less. Classical conditioning = pavlovian conditioning = associative learning amount of saliva a dog produces when it sees food) Pavlov was a russian physiologist studying digestion in dogs (specifically, the. After pavlov came up with this, people thought all learning started with classical salivating at the sound of the bell conditioning. Operant conditioning = instrumental conditioning = skinnerian conditioning. Operant conditioning: the animal must engage in some operation. The behavior of the animal is instrumental in determining the consequence. Observational learning = social learning = imitative learning = modeling. Worked with chimps set a problem for them to solve. Put the chimp in a cage with no food, and put bananas just outside the cagethe sticks were too short so they realized they could insert the small sticks into the big one > aha moment.