HLTHAGE 2GG3 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Classical Conditioning, Memory, Behaviorism
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HLTHAGE 2GG3
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Tuesday 9th January 2018
Lecture 1
Learning measuring and shaping behavior
Introduction
• Learning lab based on book is mandatory.
• There are weekly online quizzes.
• Must read textbook.
• Exams are short answer and multiple choice.
• You will have to answer tutorial questions.
Tuesday 16th January 2018
Lecture 2
Introduction to learning
What is learning
• Starts off with an experience.
• At the beginning you need this.
• This is contact with or exposure to something internal or external to which the organism
in sensitive.
• These events are called stimuli.
• There are external events but there are also internal experiences that can occur by
being in a particular situation.
• Internal are nerves, external are audience laughing.
• Learning is a relatively permanent change in behavior that can result from and
experience.
• Your brain changes when you are exposed to the stimuli, this change is relatively
permanent, because it is flexible and dynamic.
• If you get embarrassed by presenting, you remember it but it can change.
• there is some experience that has resulted in an actual change or a potential change.
• An actual change is now you will not speak in public, a potential change is you do not
know how you feel about speaking in public until you are in that situation.
• It is a latent change, it is potential.
• Learning revolves around experienced.
Misconceptions
• Folk belief has to do with misconceptions about how the world functions.
• For instance, 10% of the brain is used.
• Left and right brain hemispheres have completely separate functions.
• Brain does not change no new neurons form after birth.
• These misconceptions can interfere with learning.
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• This can be referred to as grandmother psychology, it is an implicit or naïve way of
thinking.
• When you look at something you increase your fluency, you recognize the words so you
think you know the information, you have not thought about the information in a
different way so you do not actually know the stuff.
• It gives you this bubba belief that because you have read something over again you have
learned it.
Learning
• Learning theorist carry out a debate of philosophers and how to study them.
• This has been an issue for over 2000 years.
• The earliest philosophers though that learning was an accumulation of learning.
• Where does knowledge come from.
• The way a person views learning will determine the way they will thin and ask questions
about learning.
Philosophy
• Plato and Aristotle first thought about how people learn.
• They wandered is truth and knowledge within us because we are rational or is it outside
of us, is it our experience that we learn form.
Plato
• Plato says that knowledge and truth can be discovered by self reflection.
• These thinkers influenced the curriculum.
• If you are a rationalist you think that self reflection is important, we need to think and
self reflect to learn.
Aristotle
• Empiricist believe in using senses.
• For him the scientific method originated from this idea.
• We have to be able to observe events the same regardless of who is observing.
• Self reflection is great, but no one else has knowledge of this.
• We need to be able to observe that knowledge the same way and understand it.
• Gathering data is important.
• We use our senses and look for knowledge outside.
• They if we memorize it verbatim the this is knowledge.
• This became very important for assessment; everyone needs to be treated the same
way.
Socrates
• The dialect method of discovering truth and knowledge.
• Here we have inquiry, you reflect but you are also presented with a problem and you
have to solve it.
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