PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes -Behaviorism, Learning, Operant Conditioning

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Learning: the process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or. We learn to expect and prepare for significant events such as food or pain behaviors (classical conditioning) We typically learn to repeat acts that bring rewards and to avoid acts that bring unwanted results (operant conditioning) We learn new behaviors by observing events and by watching others, and through language we learn things we have neither experienced nor observed (cognitive learning) Associative learning: learned associations often operate subtly, learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its consequences (as in operant conditioning) Thus we learn to repeat acts followed by good results and avoid acts followed by bad results. Conditioning is not the only form of learning: through cognitive learning we acquire mental information that guides our behavior. Observational learning, one form of cognitive learning, lets us learn from others" experiences.