PSYC 2000 : Psychology Notes For Test 2
Document Summary
Learning is a relatively permanent change in an organism"s behavior due to experience. Three types of learning: classical conditioning, operant conditioning, observational learning, classical conditioning, stimulus-stimulus learning, pavlov"s experiment, after experiencing one stimuli, another is expected. Ivan pavlov, dog"s salivating over food: his work became seminal for later behaviorists, acquisition. Operant conditioning: classical conditioning involves respondent behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus, operant conditioning involves operant behavior, a behavior that operates on the environment producing rewarding or punishing stimuli. Reinforcement schedules: can be reinforced based on how much time has passed or on how many responses you gave. It can be fixed or variable (unpredictable: fixed interval (time, variable interval, fixed ratio (number of responses, variable ratio (fastest) Reinforcement/punishment: reinforcement: strengthening behavior, punishment: weakening behavior, positive: adding something, negative: removing something. Biological constraints: biological constraints predispose organisms to learn associations that are naturally adaptive. Instinctive drift- animals drift towards their biologically predisposed instinctive behaviors.
