PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Implicit Learning, Enculturation, Free Range
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Learning is basically a short form of the collection of different techniques, procedures and outcomes that create changes in an organism"s behaviour. Basic principle of learning is that learning involves the acquisition of new knowledge, skills, or responses from experience that result in a relatively permanent change in the state of the learner. Three basic fundamentals of learning: 1) it is experience based. Most of the fundamental work on learning theory was done in the same time as the behaviorism theory (1930s-1950s) Classical conditioning (one thing leads to another) Classical conditioning occurs when a neutral stimulus creates a response after being paired with a stimulus that naturally produces a response, it has four basic elements as follows: Unconditioned stimulus (us) is something that reliably produces a naturally occurring reaction in an organism (in pavlov"s experiment the us was food because when it was placed before the dogs, they began to salivate)
