LEARNING

Question 1

what is developmental fallbility?

Answer 1

• trial and errors vs instinct

- some behaviours aren’t left to learning things e.g. things that put us in danger

Question 2

what is not considered learning??

Answer 2

• instincts, reflexes, changes in behaviour due to fatigue, illness, drugs and age

Question 3

what are the cognitive elements of classical conditioning?

Answer 3

• classical conditioning only occurs when an animal has learned to set up as an expectation
• conditioning is easier when the conditioned stimulus is an unfamiliar event than a familiar one as there is no pre-existing expectations.

Question 4

what is contingency?

Answer 4

contingency is the relationship between two events, one being “contingent” or a consequence of the other event.
contingency is about probability in an event.

Question 5

what are the two types of conditioning in contingency?

Answer 5

there is excitatory conditioning, inhibitory conditioning.

• excitatory conditioning is the relative likelihood of something (food) occuring given that something else (bell did)
• inhibitory conditionign is the relative likelihood of something not occuring given that something else did

Question 6

what are the two types of stimulus ? explain and provide an example for one.

Answer 6

1. ## Conditioned stimuli
2. Unconditioned stimuli