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humans science
Learning 1st year nursing student
Question | Answer |
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definition of learning | is a relatively long term change in behaviour that results from experience |
Classical conditioning | is a basic form of learning in which simples reponses are associated with a new or conditioned response |
Habituation | learning by habit |
Association | learning by association |
Systematic desensitization | repeated presentation of a feared condition in circumstances designed to reduce anxiety |
Taste aversion | may occur when a particular food or taste is extremely unpleasant |
Thorndike Puzzle box is an example of | operant conditioning |
the skinner box is an example of | operant conditioning |
how does operant conditioning work | it relies on schedules of reinforcement, procedures that manipulate the temporal relation between stimuli, responses and re-inforcers |
Types of reinforcement | positive and negative |
ratio schedule | procedures in which a reinforce is dependant on the occurrence of a number of responses may be either fixed or variable |
interval schedules | procedures in which a reinforcer is dependant on the passage of time before the response is effective: may be either fixed or variable |
observational learning | learning that occurs as a consequence of watching the behaviour of some other person |
cognitive learning | is the acquisition of information that is often not immediately acted on but stored for later use |
insight learning | seing the connection based on the phenomena known as the aha experience |