PSYC 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Learning, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning
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Learning- a process that changes thoughts and behaviors (even physical areas of the brain) via new information that modifies prior knowledge: reflex- motor or neural reactions to a specific stimulus. Instincts- innate behaviors triggered by a broader range of events, such as aging & seasons. Learning with feedback: associative learning- making connections between stimuli and events in the environment. Usually uses classical conditioning, where events that happen together repeatedly are associated: causal learning- learning through cause and effect. Blicket detector- some children understood that making block a little higher rather than placing it produced better results rather than placing it. Learning without explicit feedback: statistical learning- learning by seeing how something works and seeing patterns. Usually involved statistics. i. e. dog"s head and body intact all the time, but hat changes each time. Therefore, assume dog is head and body, and hat is something entirely different: chunking- to learn something in chunks, by associating things together.
