4310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Observational Learning, Little Albert Experiment, Amygdala

• School: University of Canberra
• Department: University of Canberra
• Course: 4310
• Professor: Dr. Caroline Ng Tseung-Wong

Document Summary

Learning is an enduring change in behavior, or in the capacity to behave in a given fashion, which results from practice or other forms of experience. Learning need a change in behavior or capacity for change. 3 criteria for defining learning: behavioural change or change in capacity for behavior. Ex: after reading what psychology is about -> change ur conception about what psychology is: behavioural change or capacity for change that endures over time -> not momentary, occurs thru practice or other forms of experience. Ex: observing others: seeing sb getting boiled by using kettle to warm hands -> not gonna do same thing: assumptions of theories of learning. Learning is adaptive (the environment will select those behavior in an individual that are adaptive to the context) Careful experimentation can uncover laws of learning. Principles of association are essential to accounts of learning: behaviourist perspective to learning theory laws of association: