Psychology 1000 Lecture : Chapter+7+-+Learning+-+for+posting.pptx

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

O process by which experience produces a relatively enduring change in behaviour or capabilities (knowing how) O knowing how" or learning and doing" or performance. O experience may provide knowledge but in science we must measure the actual performance. O examined processes by which experience influences behaviour. O laws of learning applied to virtually all organisms. O not mentalstates or fraud conflicts, because they apparach all organisms like humans as a blank slate what the organism is doing and how it reacts to things. Oexplained learning solely in terms of directly observable events. O decrease in response strength to a repeated stimulus. O many consider this the simplest form of learning. O it would be exhausting to constantly respond to every single stimulus. For example - the feeling of our clothing on our skin. O the increase in the strength of response to a repeated stimulus. O you respond greater (increases) than the first response.