PSYC 2000 Chapter : Chapter 5- Learning
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Psychology 2000- chapter 5: learning: learning is any relatively permanent / durable change in behavior that is brought about by experience of practice, four ways people learn, classical conditioning, operant conditioning, cognitive learning theory, observational learning, classical conditioning. Remove an aversive stimulus stimulus receiving a paycheck. Immediate reinforcer- a reinforce that occurs closely to a behavior in times. Rats gets a food pellet immediately following pressing a bar: delayed reinforcer- a reinforcer that is delayed in time for a certain behavior. A paycheck that comes at the end of a two week period: reinforcement schedules, continuous reinforcement- reinforcing the desired response each time it occurs. Results in fast acquisition in the beginning, but less resistant to extinction later on: partial (intermittent) reinforcement- reinforcing a response only some of the time. Interval = time: ratio = number of responses. It can be fixed or variable (unpredictable): ratio schedules, fixed-ratio schedule: reinforces a response only after a specific number of (non-reinforced) responses.
