Learning

- permanent change due to experience

Classical Conditioning

- Pavlov

- association

- UCS/UCR

o unconditioned = unlearned

o UCS -------------------UCR

o food------------------- salivation

- NS

o neutral stimulus
§ no response

o NS + UCS = UCR

o tone + food = salivation

- CS/CR

o conditioned = learned

o CS ------------- CR

o tone ----------- salivation

- acquisition

o initial learning

o influences

§ frequency

§ timing

- extinction

o CR decreases

- spontaneous recovery

o re-learn more quickly

- generalization

o similar stimuli

- discrimination

o not similar enough

Behaviorism

- Watson

o Little Albert

Role of Psychology

- cognitive processes

o thinking is involved

- biological predispositions

o learn some things faster

Operant Conditioning

- Skinner

- response/consequences

- law of effect

o repeat rewarded behavior

- shaping

o baseline

o successive approximations

o terminal response

- types of reinforcers

o strengthen behavior

o positive

o negative

o primary

o secondary

- schedules of reinforcement

o continuous

o intermittent

§ fixed ration

§ variable ratio

- punishment

o decrease behavior

Social Learning Theory

- Bandura

- learn by observation

- model

- antisocial behavior

o Bobo doll

o Television

- prosocial behavior