Psychology 2210A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Empiricism
14 Apr 2015
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What is learning: domjan (2015, p. 14): learning is an enduring change in the mechanisms of behaviour involving specific stimuli and/or responses that results from prior experience with those or similar stimuli and responses, learning plays a critical role in improving how organisms to adapt to their environment, learning, like physiological responses (ex: breathing) are key to an animal"s survival, learning can involve making or inhibiting responses (ex: learning not to drive at a red light), may or may not require an explicit teacher (learning your way around a new neighborhood vs. learning to drive a vehicle). Animal cognition and/or operant conditioning: animal learning: how animals acquire new behaviours (often discussed in the context of classical, animal cognition: how do animals use the information they obtain from their environment to move through space, time their activities, assess quantity, or remember the past, comparative cognition: comparing cognitive ability of different species (often human vs. non human animals).
