What is Learning?
Permanent behavior change of what you learn through experience. Adapt and change
Research on dogs ; classical conditioning
Isaac Pavlov
Skinner Box
Rat learned that when pulling behavior, it’ll receive food.
Dog’s and salivation
What is observational learning?
Learning by watching others and then imitating or modeling said behaviors.
Types of Learning
Operant Conditioning, Classical Conditioning, Observational Conditioning
Conducted experiments on rats to pull lever for food
B.F. Skinner
Primary reinforcers ___. Secondary reinforcers ___.
Rewards that satisfy basic biological needs and drives. Reinforcement through a learning process by which they become associated with primary reinforcers.
True or False: Dogs urinated when presented the chime of a bell.
Who proved that kids tend to copy the actions of the elders they see?
Bandura
Two forms of associative learning are ___ and ___?
Classical conditioning;operant conditioning
“Little Albert”
John B. Watson
You tell your toddler that if they clean their room, they will receive a new toy. Toddler cleans to room to receive toy. This is an example of?
Positive reinforcement
As Pavlov rang the bell after presenting the dog the food, the dog began to respond to the bell in the same way, by drooling. The bell had become
Conditioned response
What are the 4 requirements of observational learning?
Attentional, retention, motor reproduction, and motivational.
Occurs when an organism makes connections between stimuli or events that occur together in the environment
Associative Learning
Who uses gambling as an example of the power of the variable-ratio reinforcement schedule for maintaining behavior even during long periods without any reinforcement
Skinner
Punishments does what to behavior?
Reinforcers does what to behavior?
Decreases unwanted behavior.
Increases desired/wanted behavior.
A neutral stimulus becomes linked to a conditioned stimulus.
Copying behavior if seeing model get reinforced for their behavior. Not copying behavior if seeing model get punished.
Reflexes vs Instincts
Motor or neural reaction to a specific stimulus in the environment; Innate behaviors that are triggered by a broader range of events, such as maturation and the change of seasons
Bobo Doll Experiment
Albert Bandura
Adibereshki and Abkenar Study
Use of token economy increases appropriate and decreases inappropriate behaviors in a group of 8th grades students.
Dogs begin to know the difference between certain bells. One bell is food. Other doesn’t give food. This is
Stimulus discrimination.
What was the Bandura’s Bobo doll study
Demonstrated that young children will imitate aggressive actions of a model even when there is no reinforcement for doing so.