Learning: Cognitive Learning Theory Flashcards
learning that remains hidden until its application becomes useful
Latent Learning
Gestalt psychologist who taught three groups of rats the same maze, one at a time
Edward Tolman
Gestalt psychologist who set up a chimpanzee that was faced with the problem of how to get to a banana that was placed just out of his reach outside his cage
Wolfgang Kohler
the sudden perception of relationships among various parts of a problem, allowing the solution to the problem to come quickly
Insight
Famous for founding the field of positive psychology; originally studied escape and avoidance learning in dogs
Martin Seligman
the tendency to fail to act to escape from a situation because of a history of repeated failures in the past
Learned Helplessness
Research by Steven Maier suggests that learned helplessness may be due to a higher-level region of the brain known as the _______, which helps subjects determine what is controllable.
ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC)
