PSYC 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Conditioned Taste Aversion, Rosalie Rayner, Drug Tolerance
27 Nov 2016
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Chapter 6- learning: three primary types of learning: classical conditioning (s-r learning), operant conditioning (r-c learning), and observational learning. Although the behaviors focused on in this chapter involve those that develop through: most basic work in learning took place during the height of behaviorism. This chapter focuses primarily on research conducted upon the theory of behaviorism- the approach that advocates psychologists restrict themselves to the scientific study of objectively observable behavior. Mental activity was ignored in the early years of learning research: it was not until the later half of the 20th century that learning theorists focused on cognitive, biological, and evolutionary factors in learning. Behavior can take the form of any measurable or observable action, either external or internal experience (learning), there are two types of behaviors that are automatic and require no learning on the part of the organism. A reflex is an automatic, involuntary response to environmental stimuli.
