Observational and Cognitive Learning

Question 1

Observational Learning

Answer 1

The Process of learning through watching others, retaining the information, and then later replicating the behaviors that were observed

Question 2

Mirror Neurons

Answer 2

Nervous system cells that fire both when an organism itself is doing a behavior and also when observing another organism doing the behavior

Question 3

Albert Bandura & The Bobo Doll

Answer 3

Bandura demonstrated that young children would imitate the violent and aggressive actions of an adult mode

Question 4

Cognition in Conditioning

Answer 4

Researchers once thought of conditioning as automatic and not involving much in the way of higher mental processes. However, now researchers believe that conditioning does involve some information processing

Question 5

Latent Learning

Answer 5

One can learn something but not show the behavior right away

Question 6

Insight Learning

Answer 6

A sudden realization of the problem’s solution that “just came to you” “light bulb”

Question 7

The Premack Principle

Answer 7

A person will perform a less desirable activity in order to perform the more desirable activity as a consequence

Question 8

Martin Seligman

Answer 8

Investigate dogs in a cage with a partially electrified floor. Dogs who in previous experiments had been able to control the shock by pressing a working lever learned to jump over the barrier to escape the shock

Question 9

Learned Helplessness