3.9 - Social, Cognitive, & Neurological Factors in Learning

Question 1

• Social Learning Theory

Answer 1

Social learning theory proposes that learning can occur by observation and does not have to involve personal experience with a consequence. Learning can occur by copying the behavior of models.

Question 2

• Observational learning

Answer 2

watching what happens when other people do a behavior and learning from their experience.

Question 3

• Vicarious Learning

Answer 3

means our choices are affected as we see others get consequences for their behaviors.

Question 4

• Insight Learning

Answer 4

occurs when the solution to a problem occurs without any association, consequence, or model being present.

Question 5

• Latent Learning

Answer 5

refers to skills or knowledge gained from experience, but not apparent in behavior until rewards are given.

Question 6

• Cognitive maps

Answer 6

the ability to recall locations and attributes of your everyday spatial environment.
Rats appear to learn a maze just by wandering, with no cheese to reinforce their learning.
Evidence of these maps is revealed once the cheese is placed somewhere in the maze. After only a few trials, these rats quickly catch up in maze-solving to rats who were rewarded with cheese all along.