AP Psych Unit 4

Latent learning

When an individual is exposed to information but does not show they are learning until later when they have a need to show it.

Insight learning

There is a problem that needs to be solved and an individual will mentally work through the details to arrive at a solution.

Trial and Error Learning

An individual will try different possible solutions at random until they find a successful option.

John Garcia

Did research on association, believed that some associations were more ready to be made than others.

Taste Aversion

Individual has negative association with food that they hate because it caused pain or something negative in the past.

Albert Bandura

Coined the term observational learning, bobo doll experiment

Edward Tolman

Studied latent learning

Edward Thorndike

Studied trial and error learning

Ivan Pavlov

Pavlov’s dogs, basically fathered classical conditioning

BF Skinner

One of the first people to describe operant conditioning

Robert Rescorla

Focused on cognition and learning, animals can be taught to expect the outcome of an event

John B Watson

Studied how learning affects behavior, and came up with the idea that behavior is dictated by learning.