Learning And Cognition Flashcards
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How does learning help?
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Increase chances of survival and the reproductive success
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Do invertebrates show ability to learn?
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Yes
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What are the three categories of learning phenomena?
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- Non associative
- Associative
- Cognitive
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What does associative learning involve?
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2 or more events (stimuli and responses) in which on evokes the other
- classical conditioning (pavlovs dogs)
- operant conditioning (Edward Thorndikes)
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What is classical conditioning?
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- builds on natural unlearned association and links to a neutral stimulus leading to an unnatural learned association
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What is operant conditioning?
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Builds on trial and error and reinforcement/ punishment
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What is Albert banduras social learning theory?
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Bobo doll experiment - imitating the human model in aggressive behaviours
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What are the four sensorimotor stages in human reared chimpanzees?
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- Reflexes
- Mouthing
- Effluent teaching and visually following quickly moving objects
- Object permanence
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What is learned behaviour?
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Guided by acquired expectancies
Eg Edward Tolman 1932 = monkeys
