PSY1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mirror Neuron, Classical Conditioning, Conditioned Taste Aversion
31 Jul 2018
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Learning is a change in an organism"s behaviour or thought as a result of experience . If we unpack the above definition, it seems that learning can consist of changes in behaviour or thought. The s r approach centres on how observable behaviours change. It can be thought of as the "black box" approach. "the rats acquired knowledge about how to make their way through a maze - even in the absence of reinforcement. " A body of researchers continued to explore learning based upon the principles of behaviourism, but began to also measure phenomena that could not be observed. This group of researchers are known as neobehaviourists. According to the cognitive approach, the learning potential of humans depends on their information processing capacity i. e. , how information is received, encoded, stored, and retrieved. the information processing approach is strongly linked to memory.
