PSY 3400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Associationism, James Mill
19 Sep 2016
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Learning: process of change that occurs as a result of an individual"s experience. Product of learning: the long term changes in an individual"s behavior that result from that learning experience. Acquisition phase: the period in which the animal is acquiring a new skill. Aristotle: greek philosopher acknowledged as the first associationist. Associationist: philosophers who developed early theories about how people learn to associate separate thoughts or ideas as a result of their experiences. 1st principle of association, continuity: states that two ideas will be associated if the tend to occur together in space or time. In modern psychology, contiguity between stimuli is an important factor in classical conditioning, and contiguity between a response and its consequences in important in operant conditioning. 2nd principle of association, similarity: states that the thought of one concept often leads to the thought of similar concepts.
