PSYCH 1100 Lecture 31: Lecture 31

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1100
• Professor: Brian Siefke

Document Summary

Shaping- learning that results from the reinforcement of successive steps to a o final desired behaviors. If idiosyncratic behaviors are reinforced they may be repeated (ex. Wearing the o same socks on a good day of basketball: observational learning: look at me. Observational learning-learning that takes place by watching the actions of others. Model- someone whose behavior might serve as a guide for others. Diffusion chain- where individuals initially learn a behavior by observing another individual perform that behavior and then serve as a model from which other individuals learn the behavior. Learning that takes place largely without awareness of the process of the products of information acquisition.