Lecture 1

Question 1

What is learning

Answer 1

Adaptive processes where behaviour tendencies are changed by experienced, which can occur due to repeated practice

Question 2

Psychology curriculum definition

Answer 2

principles of acquisition and maintenance of behaviour

Question 3

two major forms of learning

Answer 3

non-associative (habituation), associative

Question 4

what is habituation

Answer 4

‘getting used to it’
e.g. construction noise outside and learning to be habituated to it. Habituation allows to learn stimulus is non-significant and should not be affected by it

Question 5

Watson’s methodological behaviour of learning

Answer 5

measure behaviour to infer learning. limited to the observable effects of behaviour

Question 6

Skinner’s radical behaviourism

Answer 6

Similar to Watson’s but complex behaviour follow same laws as small units of behaviour

Question 7

other learning techniques

Answer 7

neo-behaviourism: psychological variables are intervening variables between stimuli and response
Cognitive behaviourism:
behaviour is more than response mappings, based on goals and mentalistic
social learning theory

Question 8

associative learning

Answer 8

forming associations between sitmuli for learning

Question 9

changes in behaviour not due to associative learning

Answer 9

• Habituation
  
  • Innate responses (e.g. reflexes)
  • Maturation
  • Fatigue
  • Changes due to physiological state
  • Changes due to evolution

Question 10

information processing model

Answer 10

brain is like a compute with inputs, a CPU, storage and output devices

Question 11

levels of cognition

Answer 11

low = close to input from senses (vision, touch, hearing, taste and smell)
high = abstract, conceptual and relational