Psychology 1000 Chapter : PSYCH LEARNING1.doc

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Michael Atkinson

Document Summary

Emitted responses voluntary and are learned in a different way: edward l. thorndike (1898) how animals learn how to solve problems, food outside lever inside over times of trial cat eventually learned how to open the lever, animals did not attain insight into the solution but with trail and error they gradually eliminated responses that failed to open the door and became more like to perform actions that worked, process called instrumental learning, law of effect if a response is satisfying then it will occur more often and a response that is unsatisfying will become less likely to occur. This became the foundation for the school of behaviorism: b. f skinner proponent of behaviorism in the 20th century, operant behavior organism operates on its environment in some way; it emits response that produce certain consequences, operant condition learning in which behavior is influenced by consequences, viewed operant conditioning as a type of natural selection facilitates organisms personal adaptation to environment.