PSYC 100 Chapter 7: (7) Learning
17 Feb 2016
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O the acquisition of new knowledge, skills or responses form experience that results in a relatively permanent change in the state of the learner. Learning: a general process in which repeated or prolonged exposure to a. Ex) living by train tracks will make the roar of the train less stimulus results in a gradual reduction in responding. Sensitization- noticeable later stimulus: presentation of a stimulus leads to an increased response to a. Ex) people who have had their house broken into are more sensitive to late-night sounds. Begun by john b. watson: believed learning is purely a behavioural activity requiring no. Against consciousness, mental states, mind, content, mental activity introspection. Watson was fueled by ivan pavlov"s classical conditioning organism: showed learning is demonstrated equally well in almost any, higher-level functions are distinctly human, therefore learning does not involve higher-level functions, learning is an observable behaviour.
