Learning Theories

Question 1

Defining Learning Theories

What do learning theorists examine?

Answer 1

The effects of the environment in the shaping of behaviour and believe that scientific psychologists should only study observable behaviour

Question 2

Defining Learning Theories

What does the ‘learning approach’ view the mind as?

Answer 2

A “black box” which we cannot access

Question 3

What are born as?

Answer 3

Tabula rasa (blank state) and learning or experience makes us the people we become

Question 4

What does learning theories focus on?

Answer 4

How nurture shapes individuals in terms of behaviour through family, peers, social and cultural situations. This is viewed as more important than influence of genetics

Question 5

Classical conditioning

What is the unconditional stimulus (UCS)?

Answer 5

Works by itself, no other “conditions” to allow it to work

Question 6

Classical conditioning