PSYC 100A Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Little Albert Experiment, Operant Conditioning, Learning
27 Oct 2016
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Chapter 7: learning: basic concepts and classical conditioning, operant conditioning, biology, cognition, and learning. Much of what we do we learn from experience. Adaptability: our capacity to learn new behaviors that helps us cope with changes. B. f. skinner (shaping rat and pigeon behaviors: influenced the brelands (began shaping behaviors. Amy sutherland shaped" husband using similar techniques: wrote a book on animal trainers. 7. 1 how do we learn? (what is learning and what are some basic forms of learning?) Learn by habitual behaviors: eg. eating popcorn in a movie theatre. Experience of contexts evokes response (watching a movie = context, wanting to eat popcorn = response) Learn by association (john locke and david hume: eg. red pen associated with marking/error. Associative learning: linking of events that occur closely together: eg. slug associates squirt with shock (anticipating immediate future = important survival skill) Stimulus: any event/situation that evokes a response.
