PSY BEH 101D Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Social Learning Theory, Classical Conditioning, Observational Learning

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Psychology and Social Behavior
• Course: PSY BEH 101D
• Professor: Jodi Anne Quas

Document Summary

The specific laws of learning apply to conditioning , the processes by which responses become linked to particular stimuli. When a person or animal learns to associate a neutral stimulus (the sound) with a meaningful stimulus (the food), gradually reacting to the neutral stimulus in the same way as to the meaningful one. In operant conditioning (also called instrumental conditioning ), animals (including humans) perform some action and then a response occurs. If the response is useful or pleasurable, the animal is likely to repeat the action. If the response is painful, the animal is not likely to repeat the action. Any consequence that follows a behavior and makes the person (or animal) likely to repeat that behavior is called a reinforcement, not a reward. Social learning theory: an extension of behaviorism that emphasizes the influence that other people have over a person"s behavior.