PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Reinforcement, Mirror Neuron, Edward C. Tolman
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Cognitive perspectives on learning: latent learning: (edward tolman) learning that"s not immediately expressed by a response until the organism is reinforced for doing so. Learning may be occurring even if there"s no behavioural evidence of it taking place. Consistent reinforcement is more effective is most effective, where rats. Latent reinforcement demonstrated their knowledge when they received reinforcement worthy of running through the maze. We acquire information in the absence of immediate reinforcement and that we can use that information when circumstances allow: s-o-r (stimulus-organism-response) theory of learning. Individual is actively processing and analyzing information which influences observable behaviours as well as our internal mental lives. S-o-r theorist: individual differences were based on people"s cognitive interpretation of the situation (what that stimulus meant to them) Each person/organism will think about/interpret a situation in a slightly different way. S-r theorist: thinking is a form of behaviour and so individual differences in responding would therefore be explained by different learning histories of individual.
