PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6.3: Albert Bandura, Reinforcement, Operant Conditioning
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Both humans and chimps share a motivation to imitate, but preschoolers imitate every step, even the useless ones. Chimps skipped the useless steps, they imitated in a smarter manner. Classical conditioning occurs through the formation of associations, and operant conditioning involves changes in the behavior due to rewarding or punishing consequences. Both types of learning emphasize relationships between stimuli and responses, avoiding the organism to think as part of the learning. Latent learning is learning that is not immediately expressed by a response until the organism is reinforced for doing so. A first group of rats could obtain food if they navigated the correct route of the maze, where food was always waiting. They were given 10 trials to figure out an efficient route to the end of the maze, where food was always waiting. A second group was allowed to explore the maze, but did not have food available at the other end until the 11th trial.
