PSYC100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Latent Learning, Cognitive Model, Behavior Modification

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC100
• Professor: Agnes R.Ly

Document Summary

How do we learn, learning results from experience. Learning is central to almost all aspect of human existence. Born knowing nothing, the infant acquires all of its knowledge through sensory experiences: there are three types of learning, nonassociative learning is responding after repeated exposure to a single stimulus, or event. Associative learning is linking two stimuli, or events, that occur together; associations develop through conditioning, a process in which environmental stimuli and behavioral responses becomes connected. Observational learning is acquiring or changing a behavior after exposure to another individual performing that behavior; watching others: habituation and sensitization are simple models of learning. Dishabituation is the increase in a response because of a change in something familiar; breaking of the habituation process. Sensitization is an increase in behavioral response after exposure to a stimulus; threatening or painful stimuli most often lead to sensitization; leads to heightened responsiveness to other stimuli; an increase in neurotransmitter release.