PSYC 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Classical Conditioning, Lev Vygotsky, Operant Conditioning
20 Jan 2017
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Learning goals: define learning and describe five approaches to studying it, compare classical conditioning and operant conditioning, apply behavior analysis to education, summarize social cognitive approaches to learning. Learning: is a relatively permanent influence on behavior, knowledge, and thinking skills, which comes about through experience. Behavioral: emphasis on experiences, especially reinforcement and punishment, as determinants of learning and behavior. Social cognitive: emphasis on interaction of behavior, environment, and person (cognitive) factors as determinants of learning. Information processing: emphasis on how children process information through attention, memory, thinking, and other cognitive processes. Cognitive constructivist: emphasis on the child"s cognitive construction of knowledge and understanding. Social constructivist: emphasis on collaboration with others to produce knowledge and understanding. Classical conditioning- is a type of learning in which an organism learns to connect or associate stimuli. A neutral stimulus (the sight of a person) becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus (food) and acquires the capacity to elicit a similar response.
