PSYCH 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6.1-6.2: Learning, Tabula Rasa, Neural Adaptation
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Learning results from experience: learning is a relatively enduring experience n behavior, resulting from experience; it occurs when an animal benefits from experience so that its behavior is better adapted to the environment. Is central to almost all aspects of human existence; makes possible our basic abilities and our complex ones. Also shapes many aspects of daily life: learning theory arose in the twentieth century partly due to the dissatisfaction among some psychologists with the widespread use of introspection. John watson was prominent; pulled on john locke"s ideas of tabula rasa: an infant is born knowing nothing and acquires all its knowledge through sensory experience. The environment and it associated effects on animals were the sole. There are three types of learning determinants of learning: the essence of learning is that it enables us to gain knowledge about the world, we gain knowledge in three basic ways: Nonassociative learning: responding after repeated exposure to a single stimulus or event.
