PSYC 1010 Midterm: PSYCH TEST 2 MODULE REVIEW.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

: we typically learn to repeat acts that bring rewards events such as food or pain and to avoid acts that bring unwanted results watching others, and through language we learn things we have nether experienced nor observed: associative learning learning that certain events occur together the events may be two stimuli (as classical conditioning) or a response and its consequence (as in operant conditioning) : we learn new behaviours by observing events and by: example: sea slug associates the squirt with an impending shock; the seal associates slapping and barking with a herring treat, stimulus any event or situation that evokes a response, cognitive learning the acquisition of mental information, whether by observing events, by watching others, or through language, example: observational learning lets us learn from others" experiences (cid:224) we look and we learn, philopshers john locke and david hume echoed aristotle"s conclusion from.