Learning

Learning: a relatively long lasting change in behavior as a result of experience

• John watson

• Learning model

• Something that you don't do before

• A result of experience

• Purely about how the environment changes and shapes our behavior

• Must study how the environment produces changes in behavior

Learning as conditioned behavior

J.B. Watson and American Behaviorism

Was good at drawing up on other people’s work

To explain behavior, what we think/feel are irrelevant

Pavlov: Classical conditioning

2 things necessary for conditioning to occur

Organism already responds in an automatic, consistent way to some class of stimuli

Second stimulus that is repeatedly panned with the first, has no impact on the critter

We can explain human behavior in the same way we research another animals behavior

UCS- Unconditioned stimulus response→ unconditioned response: UCR

CR is normally less intense than the unconditioned response

Cr may be a component of the UCR

Effects of timing of UCS/CS

You can observe how there things work together

Higher order Conditioning

Stimulus Generalization