PSYC1002 Lecture 17: Learning and Motivation Lecture 5

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC1002
• Professor: Caleb

Document Summary

Instrumental and classical conditioning involves learning from direct experience but what. Or is it a complex example of simple learning mechanisms: the birds found that there was cream inside the bottle, therefore went to drink. One explores the door, pecks around at it and then goes inside. The other birds watch this and start to peck around the door too before going inside (this is an example of a two-action test as there is observed pecking and observed stepping) Increased motivation to act try more new things in the company of friends and parents. If you are with friends, you a(cid:396)e (cid:373)o(cid:396)e likely to t(cid:396)y thi(cid:374)gs you (cid:374)o(cid:396)(cid:373)ally (cid:449)ould(cid:374)"t (cid:449)he(cid:374) you"(cid:396)e (cid:271)y you(cid:396)self due to peer pressure. In this case, the wild monkey acts as the unconditioned stimulus, and the lab-raised monkey acts as the unconditioned response. He will learn from his mother and then try to teach the other young monkeys.