EDPY200 Lecture Notes - Classroom Management, Frontal Lobe, Percentile
12 Dec 2012
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Learning relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge that occurs as a result of experience. Behavioral theory emphasizes the relationship between the environment and behavior. It maintains that the individual plays the key role in learning. Sociocultural viewpoint stresses the nature of the environment and its relationship to behavior, with an emphasis on the community"s history and experience. Proposes that learning occurs through a process of contiguity, which is a condition in which two events occur at the same time. Classical conditioning association of automatic responses with new stimuli. Unconditioned stimulus a stimulus that, without prior learning, produces an automatic physiological response. Unconditioned response a behavior that is produced in response to a stimulus without prior learning. Conditioned stimulus with experience, it produces a learned or acquired response. Conditioned response is linked to a particular stimulus through conditioning by being paired to the stimulus. Operant learner actions by a learner which influence the learning of a new behavior.
