3.9 Factors in learning

Social learning

Learning by observing others, known as vicarious conditioning

Modeling

Copying the behavior of models

Similarity to Model

Observers learn from models who look more like them

Insight learning

The sudden realization of a solution to
a problem without prior association or reinforcement

*Aha! moment

Latent learning

Learning happens subconsciously without any reinforcement, but it later clear when the info learned needs to be used

*Ex: Cognitive maps