PSYA01H3 Chapter 5: ch.5 detailed textbook notes
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Learning an adpative process in which the tendency to perform particular behaviour is changed by experience. As conditions change we learn new behaviours and eliminate old ones. Learning can only be observed through behaviour, but some behaviour is not a result of learning, and some learning doesnt produce a change is behaviour. Experience alters chemistry of brain these alterations affect how ns responds to subsequent events. Performance behavioural change produced by internal changes brought about by learning (evidence that learning has occured) Factors such as fatigue and motivation can affect behaviour so psychologists also look for specific aspects of performance such as durability and specifity. Three types of learning: habituation, classical conditioning, operant conditioning. All involve cause and effect relationships with environment and behaviour. Learn which stimuli are trivial and which are important; learn to make adaptive responses and to avoid maladaptive ones; learn to recognize conditions that reponse would be useful or if more appropriate reponse exists.
