all modules Flashcards
How do we learn?
by experience, language, and observations; it is a permanent chance in behavior resulting from practice or experience
when does learning occur
through association between things that lead to behavioral patterns
habitutation
when one repeatedly gets exposed to stimulus they become desensitized to it
associative learning
parring events together based on experience
where did behavior result from (behaviorism)
from one’s response to its environment
Ivan pavlov
studied using dogs’ saliva, showed that responses to stimuli could be classically conditioned
classical conditioning
learned response to stimulus (dog food)
neutral stimulus
gets no response before classical conditioning becomes conditioned stimulus (sound/ bell)
generalization
on a conditioned response is gotten other similar stimuli elicit the response
discrimination
ability to distinguish between a CS and other similar stimuli
extinction
if the UCS is separated from CS the CR will stop
higher order conditioning
stimuli that was neutral before, pairs with CS produces the same CR; it adds a new stimulus to the learned behavior
Robert Rescorla
contingency theory; for learning to happen a stimulus must give the subject info about the likelihood of the events
John Garcia
the Garcia effect; taste aversion, after pairing a unpleasant stimuli with an event (bad sensation paired with food one doesn’t like)
edward thorndlike
law of effect; behaviors that result in a pleasant response are to be more repeated than those that produce neutral or unpleasant response
BF Skinner
the skinner box; operant conditioning
operant conditioning
one emits a behavior that is linked to a consequence
classical conditioning
response behavior that is elicited from one
reinforcement
increases behavior
punishment
decreases behavior
primary reinforcement
satisfies biological need
secondary or conditioned reinforcement
more symbolic needs
positive punishment
when something is added to stop a behavior/ make it less likely to contiuse