Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Little Albert Experiment, Behaviorism, Allergen

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Learning: process by which experience produces a relatively enduring change in an organism"s behaviour or capabilities. Capabilities: distinction made: knowing how, or learning, versus doing, or performance, ex. Experience may provide immediate knowledge but in science, must measure learning by changes in performance. Observational learning: learn by watching others behave. Learning: process of personal adaptation to changing circumstances. Behaviourists: focused on how organisms learn, examining the processes by which experience influences behaviour, assumed that there are laws of learning that apply to all organisms, concept of learning importance of personally adapting to environment. Personal adaptation: occurs through the laws of learning that the behaviourists examined. Results from our interactions with immediate and past environments. Not all learned behaviour is adaptive (ex. problem gambling) Interest in biological factors, and the emergence of cross-cultural psychology influence understanding of learning: cognitive and biological factors play important roles in learning, culture has important impact on learning.