Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Reinforcement, Operant Conditioning, Forego

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Psychology 1000 chapter 7: learning and adaptation: the role of experience. Learning: a process by which experience produces relatively enduring change in an organism"s behavious or capabilities. Learning is a process of personal adaptation to the ever-changing circumstances of our lives. Behaviourism: focused on how organisms learn, examining the processes by which experience influences behaviour. Ethology: focused on animal behaviour within the natural environment. Adaptive significance: how a behaviour influences an organism"s chances for survival and reproduction in its natural environment. Fixed action pattern: an unlearned response automatically triggered by a particular stimulus. Crossroads of learning: biology, cognition, and culture: behaviourism and ethology have converged in recent decades. Personal adaptation: occurs through the laws of learning discovered by behaviourists; results from our interactions with immediate and past environments. Species adaptation: through natural selection, genetically based features that enhance a species" ability to adapt to the environment are more likely to be passed on to the next generation.

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