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Mod 26
Learning
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Classical Conditioning | Type of associative learning/ Connect stimuli together |
| Operant Conditioning | Repeat acts that bring rewards, avoid acts that bring unwanted results |
| Observational Learning | Watching others/ Vicarious learning: Watching others be rewarded or punished |
| Cognitive learning | Learning things we have neither experienced nor observed |
| What is Classical Conditioning | associate two stimuli to anticipate events/ Stimuli are things we do not control/ Our response is automatic and involuntary |
| Developed by Ivan Pavlov | Behaviorist/ Can you train dogs to salivate at non-food? |
| Little Albert experiment | Can fear be taught? / Classically conditioned a child to fear a white rat/ Unethical by today’s standards |
| Extinction | when an unconditioned stimulus (US) does not follow a conditioned stimulus (CS), response weakens |
| Spontaneous Recovery | the reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response/ Learning happens faster the second time |