UNIT 6 Flashcards
involved not only in the mastery of a new skill or academic subject but also in
the development of emotions, social interaction and even personality
Learning
one of
the most important characteristics of man is his…
Ability to learn
defined as a complex process which brings about an enduring change in behavior
as a result of practice
Learning
simplest kind of learning.
Habituation
next level of learning wherein we form new association between a stimulus and a
response (s – r theory).
Associative Learning
involves the transfer of response from one stimulus to
another stimulus through repeated pairings. This kind of learning was discovered by
Ivan Pavlov.
Classical Conditioning
Parameters of Classical Conditioning
- Acquisition
- Reinforcement
- Extinction
- Spontaneous Recovery
- Generalization
- Discrimination
- Higher-order Conditioning
the phase of classical conditioning whereby the stimulus association
is learned.
Acquisition
refers to an event which may enhance or maintain the strength of
a response.
Reinforcement
refers to a decrease in the strength of a conditioned response resulting
from repeatedly eliciting the response in the absence of the reinforcement.
Extinction
partial recovery in the strength of an extinguished
conditioned response after a rest interval.
Spontaneous Recovery
tendency of the stimulus that is similar to the conditioned
stimulus to elicit the conditioned response.
Generalization
opposite of generalization. It is the process of responding to
the variation or differences between stimuli.
Discrimination
aids the individual to become flexible with his
responses to the environment.
Higher-order Conditioning
learner is allowed to discover how
his behavioral response affects the environment and vice-versa.
Operant or Instrumental Conditioning
This kind of learning
was experimented extensively by B.F. Skinner. This learning involves increasing the
probability of similar responses due to the presence of reinforcement.
Operant or Instrumental Conditioning
Phenomena of Interest in Operant Conditioning
- Shaping
- Extinction
- Stimulus Generalization
- Discrimination Learning
- Partial Reinforcement
- Secondary Reinforcement
refers to a series of responses wherein each response leads to the next
response.
Shaping
progressive weakening of an instrumental learning due to the
withdrawal of reinforcement.
Extinction
refers to the tendency of a stimulus, which is similar to
the one used in training to elicit the same response.
Stimulus Generalization
response made in one stimulus is not made possible
to the others.
Discrimination Learning
the responses made by an individual are reinforced only
part of the time.
Partial Reinforcement
these reinforcers are learned, they refer to a stimulus
that has gained a reinforcing property by having been paired with a primary
reinforcer.
Secondary Reinforcement
most prominent social learning theorist who has engaged in
many experiments involving learning by observing which otherwise known as vicarious
learning or modeling, because a model is being imitated.
Albert Bandura