PSY 1101 Lecture 5: Chapter 7

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Mark Dallas

Document Summary

Biopsychosocial approach - in uences on learning: biological - genetic predispositions, unconditioned responses, adaptive responses, social-cultural - culturally learned preferences, motivation (affected by the presence of others, psychological - previous experiences, predictability of associations, generalization, discrimination. Three related approaches to learning - can all work together: classical conditioning- works on already established behaviour patterns (e. g automatic responses of the body, we learn to associate two stimuli and anticipate events. Helps organism prepare for good or bad events. Stimulus: see lightning, response: cover ears to avoid sound: operant conditioning - organism associates own actions with consequences, and is reinforced negatively or positively. We can shape new behaviours: associate a response (behaviour) and its consequences. Learn to repeat behaviours followed by desirable results, and avoid behaviours followed by undesirable ones: modelling / observational learning - learning new behaviours by (active) observation. Not all learning is conditioning (either classical or operant).