PSY BEH 11B Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Aplysia, Learned Helplessness, Chief Operating Officer
23 Oct 2017
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Instrumental conditioning (operant conditioning) is a form of learning in which the participant receives a reinforce only after performing the desired response, and thereby learns a relationship between the response and the reinforce behaviors initiated by the organisms itself. Instrumental conditioning involves the learning of new voluntary behaviors, classical conditioning is the creation of new reflexes. Other babies, the mobile moved on its own and the baby didn"t smile and coo at it as much: learned helplessness: a condition of passivity apparently created by exposure to inescapable aversive events. This condition inhibits or prevents learning in later situations in which escape or avoidance is possible. In all cases, learning depends on neural plasticity, which is the capacity for neurons to change the way they function as a result of experience. This involves changes in the synapse: presynaptic facilitation is a process documented in studies of aplysia, that underlies many kinds of learning.
