Chapter 6 Learning

Learning

What is learning- any relativity permanent change in behavior brought about experience and learning

Classical conditioning : sometimes called Pavlovian conditioning or respondent conditioning.

type of learning in which one stimulus becomes associated with another stimulus.

-unconditioned= Not learned  (happens with out having to learn it)

-conditioned= Learned (had to learn it)

-stimulus=Event (what Happened)

-Response=Behavior ( how you acted)

-Elicit-

The Unconditioned Stimulus elicits the Unconditioned Response.

Repeatedly paired with uncontrolled stimulus. (UCS)

Now Neutral stimulus becomes conditioned Stimulus.

“Discrimination”:Over time the organism learns that there is a specific stimuli this is the target. They only respond to the stimulus.

“Extinction” - if you keep presenting the stimulus eventually they stop and disappear (salivating)

Emotional Conditioning :

Edward thorndike

consequences of response determine weather you are more or less likely to response threat way in the future

( we reaper behaviors that bring positive consequences)

B.F.skinner-

Operant behavior

  organism emits behaviors to operate on environment in attempts to chance (choosing to do something).

Operant conditioning: consequence of behavior are manipulated in increase

Successive approximations

Reinforce - better more. Better

Extinction weakening and disappearance of the response

Generalization - tendency to make a learned response    

Positive and negative reinforcement a

Positive:behavior occurs more freqtly because it produced and desired consequence

-(pleasant consequences that increases the probability that a response will be repeated)

Negative: a behavior is learned because it makes an undesirable condition or stimulus go away

-termination of an unpleasant condition after a response

Secondary Reinforcement a qcuired or learned through association with other reinfor