EDF-4210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Edward C. Tolman, Operant Conditioning, Observational Learning
21 Mar 2019
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Neither: at its most basic level, learning is when neurons wire together, two views on learning. Behaviorism: a relatively permanent change in behavior that results from experience. Cognitivism the process by which organisms make relatively permanent changes in the way they represent the environment because of experience: behavioral view of learning. Learning is an observable change in behavior, resulting from experience. Learning can be latent, relying on mental representations that could change behavior when needed: differences between classical conditioning & operant conditioning. Classical conditioning: involuntary response, behavior follows stimulus, learning the process of associating cs with cr, no new behavior is learned. Operant conditioning: voluntary response, behavior precedes stimuli, learning the process of changing one"s behavior as a result of the consequences of such behavior, new behavior is learned, edward tolman. Contingency theory- the view that learning occurs when stimuli provide information about the likelihood of the occurrence of other stimuli: observational learning.
