PSY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Corporal Punishment, Cognitive Map, Motivation

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 101
• Professor: Niemiec

Document Summary

Adaptability our capacity to learn new behaviors that help us cope with changing circumstances. Learning the process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviors. Two types of learning: associative learning linking two events that occur close together in order to predict the immediate future and it works by conditioning. Classical conditioning associate two stimuli and thus to anticipate events. Operant conditioning associate a response and its consequences. Teaches us to repeat acts that bring rewards and to avoid acts that bring unwanted results: cognitive learning learn new behaviors by observing events and by watching others. Observational learning let"s us learn from our behavior. Locke, hume and aristotle concluded that we learn by association: those correcting with red (associated with errors) are more likely to give bad notes, those voting in a school are more likely to support taxes to aid education.