CAS PS 101 Chapter 6: 6.1-6.2 Learning

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Ira Wells

Document Summary

Learning a change in behavior resulting from experience. Occurs when one benefits from experience so behavior is better adapted to environment. Babies are born knowing nothing and learn through sensory experiences. Environment and its effects on animals determined learning. 6. 1 how do we learn? nonassociative learning responding after repeated exposure to a single stimulus or event associative learning linking two events or stimuli that occur together. Associations develop through conditioning, where environmental stimuli and behavioral responses become connected. Hear a fire alarm and you look towards the alarm location. Learning a dance move by watching a youtube video observational learning learning by watching others. Habituation decrease in behavioral response after repeated exposure. Dishabituation the increase in response because of a change in something familiar. ~if something is neither rewarding or harmful, this leads us to ignore it. ~you still perceive the stimuli but you just don"t respond to it anymore.