PSYC 2100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: John Stuart Mill, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Pseudoword
30 Aug 2016
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Learning = the process of change that occurs as a result of an individual"s experience. Researchers study the process and the product of learning. Product of learning = the long term changes in an individual"s behavior that result from a learning experience. Acquisition phase = the period in which the animal is acquiring a new skill. Psychology of learning encompasses both the acquisition process and the long-term behavior that results. It would be too difficult to study every single example of learning that humans do. Strategy that researchers use instead to study learning: select a relatively small number of learning situations, study them in detail, generalize from these situations to other instances of learning. Goal of research on learning = to develop general principles that are applicable across a wide range of species and learning situations. Proposed 3 principles of association (seen as elementary theory of memory: contiguity.
