Learning Unit

Basic Processes of OC:

-Shaping

-Extinction

-Resistance to extinction

-Discriminative Stimuli

-Stimulus Generalization

-Stimulus Discrimination

Delayed Reinforcement

-Primary Reinforcers

-Secondary Reinforcers

Schedules of Reinforcement

-Continuous Reinforcement

-Intermittent Reinforcement

Learned Helplessness

Four Types:

1. FR – Fixed Ratio

2. VR – Variable Ratio

3. FI – Fixed Interval

4. VI – Variable Interval

Instinctive Drift/Biological Predispositions

Taste Aversion

Observational / Cognitive Learning

-vicarious learning

-Modeling 

-4 key processes according 

-BOBO Doll Experiment

Latent Learning

Insight Learning

LEARNING UNIT 

Key Terms and Concepts

Classical Conditioning/Contiguity Model

NS, UCS, UCR, CS, CR

(Identify in examples)

Basic Processes of CC:

-Acquisition

-Stimulus Contiguity

-Extinction

-Spontaneous Recovery

-Stimulus Generalization

-Case of Little Albert

-Stimulus Discrimination

-CS-UCS Timing (5 types)

-Higher-Order Conditioning

Operant Conditioning

Instrumental Learning

Law of Effect

Consequences

Reinforcement

Positive & Negative Reinforcement

Positive & Negative Punishment

Probs with punishment

Key Ideas:

How do we learn?

Classical Conditioning

Operant Conditioning

Observational Learning

Key People

Ivan Pavlov

John B. Watson

Little Albert

Edward Thorndike

B.F. Skinner

Robert Rescola

Albert Bandura

Edward Tolman

Wolfgang Kohler