PSY 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 47: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Observational Learning

• School: Drexel University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 111
• Professor: Megan L Meyer

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Cognition is certainly a factor in observational learning (learning by observing others) One can learn their native tongue and different other specific behaviors by imitating and observing. By watching a model, we experience vicarious reinforcement or vicarious punishment. From this, their behavior can be transmitted from generation to generation: for humans, imitation is pervasive. 4. all expand by one person copying another: example : food, fashion, ceremonies, traditions, morals, and fads. For instance, babies can imitate adults who stick out their tongue just shortly after birth. Babies of one year would even look where an adult is looking: humans have brains that support empathy and imitation. Researchers use fmri scans to see brain activity associated with performing and with observing actions: the brain"s response to observing others make emotions contagious. This helps one realize why abusive parents have aggressive kids and why men who beat their wives had wife-battering fathers: researchers state that aggressiveness can be genetic.