Learning What does it mean to learn something? How do you know you’ve learned?
Learning A relatively permanent change in behavior that results from experience Seal balances ball receives food Balances ball again to gain more food
How do we learn? Most learning is associative learning Learning that certain events occur together.
A brief overview of each 3 types of Learning Classical Conditioning Operant Conditioning Observational Learning A brief overview of each and things we will look at
Classical Conditioning Do you cringe at the sound of a dentist’s drill?? Do you salivate when passing your favorite restaurant?? How did you learn these behaviors? It all started with Ivan Pavlov, his dogs, and classical conditioning A type of learning where a stimulus (something that we can respond to) gains the power to cause a behavior or action
Operant Conditioning This is the Reinforcement and punishment type of learning Learning in which the frequency of a behavior depends on the consequence that follows that behavior Touching a hot oven learn not to touch same hot oven because of reinforcement of behavior burning hand
“The Law of Effect” “Any behavior that has good consequences will be repeated and any behavior that has bad consequences will be avoided” Edward Thorndike
Observational Learning Learning by observing others learning that occurs as a function of observing, retaining and replicating behavior observed in others
Bandura and the Bobo Dolls
Observational Learning influenced debates on the effect of television violence and parental role models
Antisocial models vs. prosocial models
Classical Conditioning and Little Baby Albert How about fear? Are we born with it or do we acquire it?? Classical Conditioning and Little Baby Albert