TAL 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Intellectual Disability, David Premack, Collective Behavior

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Teaching and Learning
• Course: TAL 103
• Professor: Post Shawn

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Learning--process through which experience causes permanent change in knowledge or behavior o. Change is the important part & it may be deliberate or unintentional, for better or for worse, correct or incorrect, & conscious or unconscious o. Change must be brought about by experience--the interaction of a person with his or her environment--& not simply due to maturation (height, gray hair) o o o. Temporary changes like those from illness or hunger also excluded. Some emphasize the change in knowledge & others in behavior. Early explanations of learning: contiguity & classical conditioning. Contiguity: aristotle gave earliest explanation of learning, saying we remember things together: 1) when they are similar, 2) when they contrast, & 3)when they are contiguous o o. Contiguity--association of two events because of repeated pairing. Stimulus--event that activates behavior: response--observable reaction to a stimulus, after contiguity, when one sensation occurs, the others will be remembered too o. Classical conditioning--association of automatic responses with new stimuli.