PSYC 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Cognitive Theory, Observational Learning, Attention
6 Nov 2017
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Assimilations: if a child is shown a dog, they assume all 4 legged animals are dogs. Accommodation: recognize the need to modify schema categories. Attachment: a close emotional bond between infants and primary caregivers. Secure: confident in bond w/ parent, parent is sensitive to child"s needs. Distressed at absence, avoids parent upon return. Internal working model: expectations of how others will behave (good experiences = good expectations) Learning: long lasting change in behavior or knowledge die to experiences (promotes survival/ provides flexibility to adapt to changing environments) Structural changes in neurons as result of learning (i. e. , hebbian learning) Hebbian learning: neural connections dying after lack of use. Stimulus generalization: after conditioning, response generalizes to other similar objects. Extinction: cs is presented repeatedly but nothing follows it (no food, no sour patch, etc. Over time cs stops producing cr and becomes neutral stimulus again. Operant conditioning: learn to associate one"s own actions w/ consequences.
