Intro to Learning
The process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviors.
What is learning?
A stimulus which elicits no response prior to conditioning
What is the Law of Effect?
Our ability to form cognitive maps in our minds that may not become apparently until a reward is in place.
What is latent learning?
The perception that chance or outside forces determine our fate
What is an External Locus of Control?
Learning through watching others.
What is observational learning?
A stimulus which elicits a response even without conditioning
What is the Unconditioned Stimulus?
Removing something we enjoy (i.e. having your phone taken away).
What is Negative Punishment?
That "aha!" moment when the solution to a problem suddenly comes to you.
What is insight learning?
The perception that you control your own fate
What is an Internal Locus of Control?
Learning through making connections or associations.
What is associative learning?
The natural response to the Unconditioned Stimulus
What is the Unconditioned Response?
What is Positive Reinforcement?
The desire to perform a task for its own sake.
What is Intrinsic Motivation?
The ability to control impulses and delay short-term gratification for greater long-term rewards.
What is Self Control?
Learning through thinking about information and allowing it to change our behavior.
What is cognitive learning?
This stimulus becomes known as the Conditioned Stimulus after acquisition has occurred.
What is the Neutral Stimulus?
The removal of something we don't enjoy (i.e. having the restrictions taken off your driver's license).
What is Negative Reinforcement?
The desire to perform a task due to external rewards.
What is Extrinsic Motivation?
Frontal lobe neurons that some scientists believe fire when performing certain actions or when observing another doing so.
Pavlov's dogs was a classic example of this type of learning.
What is associative learning (classical conditioning)?
The new name given to the Unconditioned Stimulus once acquisition has occurred.
What is the Conditioned Stimulus?
Being given something you don't want (i.e. a spanking, etc).
What is Positive Punishment?
The hopelessness and passive resignation that comes when we are unable to avoid repeated aversive events.
What is learned helplessness?
The researcher whose infamous "Bobo Beatdown" showed us the influence that observing adult behavior has on children.
Who is Albert Bandura?