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LEARNING
A relatively permanent change in knowledge or behavior that results from practice or experience.
Two types of learning:
TYPE OF LEARNING:
CLASSICAL CONDITIONING:
Operant Conditioning
A relatively permanent change in knowledge or behavior that results from practice or experience.
Two types of learning:
- Operant conditioning
- Social learning
TYPE OF LEARNING:
CLASSICAL CONDITIONING:
- In classical conditioning, an individual responds to some stimulus that would not ordinarily produce such a response.
- This theory grew out of Pavlov’s experiments to teach dogs to salivate in response to the ringing of a bell.
- When Pavlov gave a dog a piece of meat, the dog would salivate.
- The meat was an unconditioned stimulus; the salivation of the dog was the unconditioned response.
- The bell, on the other hand, was a conditioned stimulus that was originally neutral. Pavlov paired the bell with the meat, which caused the dog to associate the sound of the bell with being fed.
- Over time, the sound of the bell alone produced a conditioned response by making the dog salivate.
- Classical conditioning is passive. Something happens, and we react in a specific way. As such, it can explain simple, reflexive behaviors.
Operant Conditioning
- Learning that takes place when the learner recognizes the connection between a behavior and its consequences.
- Individuals learn to operate on their environment, to behave in certain ways to achieve desirable consequences or avoid undesirable consequences.