Learning Theory
What is learning?
Learning is the process of acquiring new understanding, knowledge behavior, skills, value, attitude and preferences.
What is the law of effect?
Behaviors followed by pleasant or rewarding consequences are more likely to be repeated, while behaviors followed by unpleasant or punishing consequences are less likely to be repeated.
What is shaping?
any consequence that increases the future likelihood of a behavior
What is the difference between positive and negative reinforcement?
Positive adds something desirable, negative removes something undesirable
Learning is a change in behavior as a result of ......
Experience
Classical Conditioning was the first kind of learning to be studied experimentally.
True or False
True
Operant conditioning is when behaviour is modify by ?
Reward or punishment
Which schedule of reinforcement rewards behavior after an unpredictable amount of time?
Variable-interval schedule
What type of learning is occurring with this type of questions and reward?
Operant conditioning
Who was the pioneer researcher into the classical conditioning?
Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936)
What type of reinforcement schedule is used in a "buy 5, get 1 free" store promotion?
Fixed Ratio
What kind of learning takes place when an individual acquires behavior by watching the behavior of a second individual?
Observational learning
what is the result of learning?
permanent change in behaviour
What is an unconditioned stimulus?
A stimulus that naturally triggers a response
What are some problems with punishment?
Only works when punisher is there.
Causes anxiety within Child
What was the purpose of the Little Albert experiment?
Show that fears can be learned through conditioning
Which process describes the weakening of a learned response over time?
Extinction
what where the subjects that Pavlov experimented on?
Dogs
What is the name of the Psychologist that proposed the theory Learning conditioning by reward and punishment?
B.F Skinner (1904-1990)
Name the Canadian/American psychologist that proposed the Social Learning Theory
Albert Bandura