Learning Flashcards
What is learning?
“A relatively durable change in knowledge or behaviour that is due to experience”.
A lifelong dynamic process enabling adaptation. Involves adopting or changing behaviours, skills, habits, values, emotional responses or preferences.
What is Classical conditioning?
Medical examples?
Involuntary responses are illicited via an originally Neutral Stimulus due to an a/w an Unconditioned stimulus.
e.g White Coat Syndrome, dentists drill, conditioned nausea.
What is Operant conditioning?
Medical Examples?
Voluntary responses become controlled by their consequence.
The response/behaviour may be increased by reinforcement or decreased by non- reinforcement or punishment.
e.g, Teaching surgical skills (via shaping), improving medication adherence (via positive reinforcement), physical rehabilitation to improve physical functioning (via shaping).
What is shaping?
A form of operant conditioning where successive steps to a desired complex target behaviour are reinforced.
e.g, teaching animals tricks, physical rehabilitation, teaching surgical skills, etc.
What is observational learning?
Medical examples?
A from of learning where the response is influenced by observing the experience and actions of others.
e.g, imitation or vicarious reinforcement.
e.g, Teaching med students and trainees, support groups for patients, modelling patient behaviour in a video before an operation, etc.
Possible uses of behavioural therapy?
Teaching kids with ADHD or Autism to swallow pills.
Reducing the fear of withdrawal symptoms in addicts during rehabilitation.
Social skills training
Cognitive-behaviour therapy.
