PSY 2012 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Operant Conditioning, Observational Learning, Behaviorism
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278-313: basic learning concepts and classical conditioning. Learning: the process of acquiring through experience new information or behaviors. Humans learn by association and our minds connect events in sequences. Learned associations also feed habitual behaviors and behaviors are associated with context. Associative learning: learning that certain events occur together; the events may be two stimuli (classical conditioning) or a response with consequences (operant conditioning. Classical conditioning: learning to associate two stimuli and to anticipate events. Stimulus: any event or situation that evokes a response. Respondent behavior: behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus. Operant behavior: behavior that operates on the environment, producing consequences. Operant conditioning: learning to associate a response and its consequence. Cognitive learning: the acquisition of mental information, whether by observing events, by watching others, or through language. Classical conditioning: a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events.
