PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Reinforcement, Contiguity, Stimulus Control
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Learning: a more-or-less permanent change in behaviour or behavioural potential that results from experience. Change in behaviour: could be due to learning or not (ex- riding bike better sleep could be- easier to sleep in familiar place) Behaviour potential: learning by observing, reading, or other methods and putting information to work later is learning. (cid:272)hools use this te(cid:272)h(cid:374)i(cid:395)ue (cid:862)(cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge i(cid:374) (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iou(cid:396)al pote(cid:374)tial(cid:863) o(cid:396) (cid:862)(cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge i(cid:374) (cid:272)og(cid:374)itio(cid:374)(cid:863) affe(cid:272)ts future ability to perform behaviours after learning has occurred, only apparent later what organism has learned. Includes things like riding bike, learning, forgetting, relearning language while excluding things like getting used to a smell (due to short-term sensory adaptation) or physical changes that come maturation. How does learning take place: nature nurture debate rooted in 17th century renaissance philosophies trying to describe where human behaviour came from, nativists: ren descartes (1596-1650) proposed that almost all behaviour was reflexive or due to inborn ideas.
