PSYC 1001 Lecture : Chapter 6 Notes- Learning .docx
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Definition of learning for a psychological point of view :- learning can be seen as something that is relatively durable, because sometimes we do not always retain what we learn. Learning can cause change in our : behavior knowledge what we are doing in university right now, learning capability attitude. Walking(learning how to walk)is not seen as learning because it is as a result of our physical maturation purposes. Conditioning a word that was choosing over learning by the behavioral psychologist because it implied a more mechanical connection between external event in the world and what was going on in our brains. Conditioning can also be seen as the same as learning. He focus was on physiology, trying to understand the digestive systems of dogs. What he found out was even before the dogs were feed the dogs started salivating. We describe the learning/conditioning of pavlov dogs as; Salivate :- unconditioned response(ur) this is caused by us.
