PSYC 2000 Chapter : Chapter 5 Learning
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Learning: any relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by experience or practice. Ivan pavlov: russian physiologist, classical conditioning: learning to make a reflex response to a stimulus other than the original, natural stimulus that normally produces the reflex. Cs- sight of dog- ucs dog bite- ucs frightened. Acquisition: the repeated pairing of the cs and the uc; the organism is in the process of acquiring learning. Skinner was a behaviorist; he wanted to study only observable, measurable behavior. Shaping: the reinforcement of simple steps that leads to a desired complex behavior. Trained three groups of rats to run the same maze. Insight: the sudden perception of relationship among various parts of a problem, allowing the solution to the problem to come quickly. Group one reinforced with food every time it made its way out. Group two received no reinforcement for completing the maze for the first 9 days, but did on the 10th.
