PSY 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Habituation, Observational Learning, Operant Conditioning

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 102
• Professor: Zahra Vahedi

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In other words, we learn to respond less strongly to stimuli. We have to learn which things are important to pay attention to: 2. And which things we can safely ignore: 3. We have to learn the consequences of our actions: conditioning models of learning, 1) classical conditioning, 2) operant conditioning, 3) observational learning (after thought, but majority of emphasis is on the other two) Ie: parrots, food and cabinet: classical conditioning. John b watson: father of behaviourism, believed that all behaviour was a product of strict stimulus response links. Little albert study: generalizing to similar stimuli, criticism: ethics, method (stimuli wasn"t that similar to rat), discussion as to whether little watson was even healthy, operant conditioning, operant conditioning: learning controlled by the consequences of the organisms behaviour. In instrumental conditioning, you learn that your behaviour results in certain outcomes. Instrumental conditioning consists of learning that if you produce a certain behaviour, you will receive a reward or punishment.