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Unit 3 - Learning Flashcards

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Reinforcement

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anything that when following a response increases the likelihood that the response will occur again

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Learning

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any relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by experience or practice

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Maturation

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change due to genetic blueprint/biology

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Ivan Pavlov

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  • pioneered the empirical study on the basic principles of classical conditioning
  • salivating dogs experiment
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Reflex

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an unlearned, involuntary response that is not under personal control or choice

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Stimulus

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any object, event, or experience that causes a response

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Response

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reaction of an organism

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Classical Conditioning

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learning to elicit an involuntary, reflex-like, response to a stimulus other than the original, natural stimulus that normally produces the response

UCS –> UCR
food –> salivation

NS + UCS –> UCR
metronome + food –> salivation

CS –> CR
metronome –> salivation

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Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS)

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original, naturally occurring stimulus

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Unconditioned Response (UCR)

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automatic and involuntary response to the unconditioned stimulus

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Neutral Stimulus (NS)

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originally has no effect on response

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Conditioned Stimulus (CS)

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previously neutral stimulus; it is learned

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Conditioned Response (CR)

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learned response to conditioned stimulus

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Acquisition

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repeated pairing of NS and UCS; organism is in process of learning

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CR vs UCR

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CR is weaker than UCR because the UCR is the original and the CR is learned

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Basic Principles About Classical Conditioning

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  • NS/CS comes before UCS
  • CS and UCS come very close together in time
  • NS paired with USC many times before conditioning can take place
  • CS is distinctive stimulus; it stands out from other competing stimuli
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Similar Sounds vs OG Sound in Classical Conditioning

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  • strength of response to similar stimuli is not as strong as to OG stimulus
  • more similar the stimulus is to the OG stimulus, more similar the strength of response to OG stimulus
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Stimulus Generalization

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tendency to respond to a stimulus that is similar to the original CS

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Stimulus Discrimination

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occurs when an organism learns to respond to different stimuli in different ways

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Extinction

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CS no longer causes CR

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Spontaneous Recovery

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CR reappears when original CS returns, although response is weak and short-lived

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High-Order Conditioning

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Occurs when strong CS is paired with NS; strong CS plays part of UCS and NS becomes second CS

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John B. Watson

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  • behaviorist

- little Albert experiment (baby trained to have phobia of rat by pairing it with loud/scary sound)

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Conditioned Emotional Response (CER)

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some of easiest forms of classical conditioning; life is full of them

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Vicarious Conditioning

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learn by watching someone else respond to a stimulus

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Conditioned Taste Aversion

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won’t eat food that is associated with a bad experience; exception to rule that learning takes place over several trials/experiences

  • mammals: biologically prepared to associate taste with illness
  • birds: biologically prepared to associate visual characteristics with illness
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Pavlov’s Stimulus Substitution

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believed that CS, through association close in time with UCS, came to activate the same place in the brain that was originally activated by UCS

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Robert Rescorla

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found that CS had to provide some kind of information about the coming of the UCS to achieve conditioning

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Cognitive Perspective

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mental activity of consciously expecting something to occur

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Fear and Classical Conditioning

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conditioned response to fear can be stronger that the unconditioned response because fear is biological and necessary to survive

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Operant Conditioning

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kind of learning that applies to voluntary behavior

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Edward L. Thorndike

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one of the first researchers to explore and attempt to outline the laws of learning voluntary responses (puzzle boxes)

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Law of Effect

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if an action is followed by a pleasurable consequence, it will tend to be repeated; if an action is followed by an unpleasant response, it will tend not to be repeated

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B.F. Skinner

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  • behaviorist

- discovered reinforcement using Skinner boxes/operant conditioning chambers

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Reinforcers

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  • items/events that when following a response will strengthen it
  • 2 kinds: primary and secondary
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Primary Reinforcer

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fulfills a basic need

ex. food, water, touch, stopping pain…

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Secondary Reinforcer

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gets its reinforcing properties from being associated with a primary reinforcer in the past (get its reinforcing power from classical conditioning)

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Positive Reinforcement

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the reinforcement of a response by the addition or experience of a pleasurable consequence

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Negative Reinforcement

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following a response with the removal or escape from something unpleasant

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Partial Reinforcement Effect

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a response that is reinforced after some, but not all, correct responses will be more resistant to extinction that a response that receives continuous reinforcement; partially reinforced behavior is more difficult to suppress and more like real life

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Continuous Reinforcement

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a reinforcer for each and every correct response

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Interval Schedule

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when timing of response is more important to accomplish partial reinforcement

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Ratio Schedule

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when number of responses is more important to accomplish partial reinforcement

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Fixed Interval Schedule

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reinforcer is received after a certain, fixed interval of time has passed
ex: mail, baking, end of class, salaried work

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Variable Interval Schedule

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interval of time after which the individual must respond in order to receive a reinforcer changes from one time to the next
ex: email, stargazing, surfing, pop quiz

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Fixed Ratio Schedule

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number of responses required to receive each reinforcer will always be the same
ex: rewards cards, buy 1 get 1 free, hourly work

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Variable Ratio Schedule

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number of responses changes from one trial to another

ex: salesmen who work on commission, fishing, gambling

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Reinforcement of Behavior as Effective as Possible

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  • timing: in general a reinforcer should be given as immediately as possible after desired behavior (especially animals and small children)
  • reinforce only desired behavior
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Punishment

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opposite of reinforcement; it’s any event/stimulus that, when following a response, causes that response to be less likely to happen again; weakens responses; getting rid of a response that is well established is not easy

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Positive Punishment

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when something unpleasant is added to situation

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Negative Punishment

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behavior is punished by removal of something pleasurable

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Drawbacks to Severe Punishment

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  • may cause child/animal to avoid punisher instead of behavior being punished, so child/animal learns wrong response
  • may encourage lying to avoid punishment which is the wrong response
  • creates fear/anxiety/emotional responses that don’t promote learning; if point is to teach, this consequence doesn’t help
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Modeling

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presenting a behavior to be imitated

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Negative and Positive Punishment

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  • usually only temporary
  • after some time has passed the behavior usually returns as the memory of the punishment gets weaker, allowing spontaneous recovery
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How to Make Punishment More Effective

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  • punishment should immediately follow the behavior it is meant to punish or else punishment might not be associated with behavior
  • punishment should be consistent: follow through with punishment that was promised; punishment for particular behavior should stay at same intensity or increase slightly but never decrease
  • punishment of the wrong behavior should be paired with reinforcement of right behavior
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Spanking

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children who were spanked at age 3 in a study were more likely to be aggressive at age 5 than children who weren’t spanked

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Discriminative Stimulus

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any stimulus that provides an organism with a cue for making a certain response in order to obtain reinforcement –> specific cues lead to specific responses and discriminating between cues leads to success

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Shaping/Shaping by Successive Approximation

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small steps toward some ultimate goal are reinforced until goal itself is reached

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Successive Approximation

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small steps one after the other that gets closer and closer to the goal

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Spontaneous Recovery

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the recurrence of a conditioned response after extinction

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Instinctive Drift

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tendency to revert to genetically controlled patterns

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Brelands’ Ideas Contrary to Skinner’s

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  • animal doesn’t come to lab as ‘blank slate’, and can’t be be taught just ‘any’ behavior
  • differences between species of animals matter in determining what behavior can or can’t be conditioned
  • not all responses are equally able to be conditioned to any stimulus
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Behavior Modification

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application of operant conditioning (and sometimes classical) to bring changes in behavior

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Tokens

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secondary reinforcers that can be traded in for other kinds of reinforcers

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Token Economy

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use of tokens to modify behavior

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Time-Out

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form of mild negative punishment in which a misbehaving organism is placed in a special area away from the attention of others

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Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)

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form of behavior modification that uses analysis of current behavior and behavioral techniques to address a society relevant issue (skills broken down to simplest steps and taught through a system of reinforcement; prompts are given when learning a skill or if child refuses to cooperate (slowly withdrawn so they can do it independently))

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Autism

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person has a great difficulty communicating and often refuses to look at another person

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Dr. Ivar Lovaas

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used candy to teach social skills and language to children with autism

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Biofeedback

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traditional term used to describe biological feedback of information, and through its use many problems can be relieved/controlled

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Neurofeedback

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trying to change brain activity (record EEG; modern bio/neurofeedback amps are connected to electroencephalograph to record and analyze physiological activity of brain)

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Scaffolding

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shaping with instruction

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Cognition

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the mental events that take place inside a person’s mind while behaving

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3 Key Theorists in Early Days of Development of Cognitive Learning Theory

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  • Edward Tolman (gestalt) - rats
  • Wolfgang Kohler (gestalt) - chimps
  • Martin Seligman (modern psychologist) - dogs
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Latent Learning

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idea that learning could happen without reinforcement and then later affect behavior (Tolman)

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Insight Learning

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rapid perception of relationships; can’t be gained through trial-and-error; sudden “aha moment” (Kohler)

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Positive Psychology

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looking at entire concept of mental health and therapy that focuses on adaptive, creative, psychologically more fulfilling aspects of human experience instead of mental disorders (Seligman)

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Learned Helplessness

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tendency to fail to act to escape from a situation because of history of repeated failures in past

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Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex

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  • helps determine what situation can be controlled
  • it inhibits brain stem area and calms amygdala’s response, allowing animal to effectively respond to stressor and exhibit control (Maier - Seligman’s colleague)
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Observational Learning

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learning of new behavior through watching the actions of a model; behavior can be desirable or undesirable

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Albert Bandera

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bobo doll experiment –> kids copied violence against bobo doll (this doesn’t prove that TV makes children violent)

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Learning/Performance Distinction

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learning can take place without actual performance

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Bandura’s 4 Elements of Observational Learning

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  • attention: have to pay attention to model in order to learn
  • memory/retention: learner has to remember what was done
  • imitation/motor reproduction: learner must be able to reproduce/imitate actions of the model
  • desire/reinforcement: learner must have desire/motivation to perform the action; rewards make person more likely to imitate observed behavior; if model is punished/fails then learner not motivated to imitate
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Toilet Training Cats

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use shaping

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Rest

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doing nothing for a period of time during the process of shaping

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How to Make Punishment Effective

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  • consistent
  • immediate
  • positive reinforcement
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How Punishment Can Go Wrong

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  • only learn what ‘not’ to do
  • causes aggression
  • causes avoidance
  • only works when punisher is present
  • learned helplessness
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Graph for Schedules

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study

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Types of Observational Learning

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  • vicarious learning
  • social learning
  • modeling

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