PSYC 100 Chapter Notes -Contiguity, Longrun, Edward C. Tolman

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Prof.

Document Summary

Learning-process where behaviour or knowledge changes as a result of experience. Allows us to do tasks that we weren"t born to do-> simplest tasks to more complex. More or less permanent change in behaviour or behavioural potential that results from experience. Permanent change in behaviour or behavioural potential results from experiences covers things like riding a bike and learning, forgetting, and re-learning a language, but excludes short-term sensory adaptions and physical changes that come from maturation. Nativist-rene descartes-> almost all behaviour was reflexive or due to inborn ideas. We are born the way we are and our life experiences play little or no role in shaping behaviour. Empiricist- thomas hobbes and john locke-> humans are born with no ideas or knowledge of behaviour, they learn through experiences. Cognitive learning-what students do-> reading, writing, and taking tests. Due to fatigue in neurons and unconditioned and unimportant stimuli. Habituation-diminished response to a stimulus after repeated exposure.