PSYS 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Guard Dog, Guide Dog, Reinforcement
27 Oct 2016
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Learning helps humans to adapt to our environments. Learn to expect & prepare for signi cant events. Learn to repeat acts that bring rewards & avoid acts that bring unwanted results. Our minds naturally connect events that occur in sequence. Giving people a red pen instead of a black pen helps them spot more errors/give lower grades. People are more likely to support taxes to aid education if their voting place is in a school. If it"s in a church in the american south, people are more supportive of a same-sex marriage ban. Sleeping in a certain posture in bed, eating popcorn in a movie theater. Next experience of the context evokes our habitual response. British research team found that behaviors become habitual after 66 days. Complex animals can learn to associate their own behavior with its outcomes. Aquarium seal will repeat behaviors that prompt people to toss it a herring. Seal associates slapping/barking with a herring treat.
