PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Observational Learning, Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 111
• Professor: Lanora Duell

Document Summary

A relatively permanent change in an organism"s behavior due to experience o. Based on an experience, the organism (not necessarily human), changes their behavior and it remains. Capacity to learn new behaviors that enable us to cope with ever-changing experiences. How do we learn: association (associative learning) Our mind naturally connects events that occur in sequence. The events may be two stimuli (classical conditioning) or a response and its consequences (operant conditioning) o. Acquire mental information that guides behavior in observational learning. We don"t always have to experience it directly to learn about it, you may just observe something: observational learning. Organisms learn to associate stimuli and thus anticipate events. Repeatedly present a neutral stimulus (ns), such as a tone, just before an unconditioned stimulus (us), such as food, which triggered the unconditioned response (ur), of salivation. Ur is an event that occurs naturally in response to some. Us is something that naturally and automatically triggers the unlearned response.