01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Observational Learning, Operant Conditioning, Albert Bandura

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: L.Jacobs

Document Summary

A relatively permanent change in behavior due to. It is the process of acquiring knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values, through our experience, research, or teaching, that causes a change of behavior that is measurable. Learning involves changing our behavior in response to experience. How we respond to the environment (that"s called. How we act in the environment (that"s called operant. How we observe the environment (that"s called classical conditioning) conditioning) observational learning) Ivan pavlov was a psychologist who won a nobel prize for his research on digestion. Pavlov saw that dogs used in his research salivated when they saw the lab workers who fed them. He suspected that the reflex was psychological - based on the dog"s previous experiences. Further testing showed that showing food to the dog produced the same effect as feeding it. Dogs are able to learn the association between bell and food, and will salivate immediately after hearing the bell once this connection has been made.