Chapter and Topic of This Review Guide: Chapter 7- Learning

Chapter and Topic of this Review Guide: Chapter 7- Learning

Vocab Term Definition of Term Example Learning The adduction of knowledge to change Learning snakes are bad so you are afraid of ones behavior or reflexes snakes from now on Associative Learning certain events go together Little Albert: White animal and Loud Gong Learning Behaviorism Study of behavior without referring to Watson did not refer to mental process mental process Classical Action taken due to natural reflex Babies spread out extremities when falling Conditioning Unconditioned Mental response to unconditioned People afraid of being sick Response stimulus Unconditioned Natural trigger to response Sickness Stimuli Conditioned Learned response to previously neutral Sick when you eat burritos Response stimuli Conditioned Irrelevant trigger Sick one time when you ate a burrito so now Stimuli you feel sick when you see burritos Acquisition Initial stage of linking stimuli When Little Albert first found correlation between gong and rabbit Extinction Diminishing of conditioned response Pavlov’s dog does not salivate after enough times of the bell without food Spontaneous Reappearance of response after a pause recovery Generalization An idea someone has about a certain Little Albert fears all white fuzzy things type of something instead of just rabbit Discrimination Ability to distinguish between conditioned and irrelevant response

Shaping Guiding behavior to achieve a certain Give a bird food when it turns left and behavior associated with stimuli the bird will eventually turn left in circles to receive food Primary Reinforcement for biological needs Food, Water reinforcers Secondary Reinforcement for non biological needs Toys, approval reinforcers Punishment Giving something to someone in turn Giving a slap in the face(Positive) for their action Taking away toy(Negative) Latent Learning Learning that occurs bout is not present How to throw ball after seeing it many until demonstrated times but never attempting Observational Learning by watching others perform Kids watch their parents react to certain Learning tasks foods or situations Modeling Observing and imitating Monkey see monkey do Learned One stops trying to stop pain with Dogs shocked in boxes, some with the Helplessness failure to stop it in the past ability to stop and others not Overjustification Providing a reward for something we We like playing basketball but get Effect already like to do money, you like money more b-ball less Cognitive Map Mental representation of the layout of Your cognitive map would consist of ones environment your house

Authors of Basic of What Was Done Lesson(s) learned Important from the study Study Albert Bandura Kids watched adults with aggression, then were put into a room Observational with toys and chose to hit a large doll “Bobo Doll” Learning Pavlov Dog salivates when it hears a bell because the bell is associated Conditioning with food to become a conditioned stimuli Skinner Rat in box hit a bar for food, and learn that food comes out of the Shaping bar after being rewarded for certain actions to help the rat learn to hit the bar Thorndike He found that behavior is more likely to be continued with Law of effect favorable consequences than less likely John Watson Gave a young boy a white fuzzy animal and when he did also hit Associative learning a very loud gong, so the boy learned that when he saw a white fuzzy animal that something bad would happen

Name of Important Person What this person is known for Impact on Psychology Albert Bandura Bobo Doll Observational Learning Pavlov Dog and Bell Conditioning Skinner Skinner Box Shaping Thorndike Law of effect Law of effect John Watson Little Albert/ Father of Behaviorism Associative Learning