Learning Flashcards
Kurt Lewin
Developed the theory of association
Association is grouping things together based on their co-occurrence in time and space (i.e. pairing stimulus and response)
Predated behaviourism; Pavlov’s work largely proves this theory
Which books did Skinner famously publish?
“Walden Two” and “Beyond Freedom and Dignity” which discussed the control of human behaviour
Forward Conditioning
Pairing of the CS and UCS, in which the CS is presented first.
Consists of two subtypes:
Delayed conditioning
Trace conditioning
Stimulus discrimination
The ability to be able to distinguish between similar but slightly different stimuli.
Undergeneralization
Failure to generalize a stimulus
Perceptual (a.k.a Concept) Learning
Learning about something in general rather than learning specific stimulus-response chains (i.e. learning a city’s layout instead of just a left-right sequence of directions).
Autonomic conditioning
Evoking autonomic NS responses (i.e. affecting breathing, heart rate, etc.) through training
State-dependent learning
What a person learns in one state is best recalled in that state.
Victor Vroom
Applied expectancy-value theory to individual behaviour in large organizations
Found that people on the lower rungs of a big organization don’t expect to receive company incentives, and so don’t do much work to get them when they’re offered.
Social Learning Theory
Posits that individuals learn what is acceptable (or not) through their culture (i.e. their interactions in society)
Positive transfer
Previous learning that makes it easier to learn another task later on.
Negative transfer
Previous learning that makes it harder to learn another task later on.
Cooperative learning
Involves students working together on a project in small groups
What did Thorndike famously publish?
The first educational psychology textbook in 1903).
