Kinds of learning

Kinds of learning

1. Behavioral

   • General process present in most species
     • Associative
       • Pavlovian conditioning
       • Operant conditioning
         • John Watson
           • Behaviorism
             • We can learn emotions
         • Skinner
           • Radical Behaviorism
             • Considers that behavior is the result of reinforcements by the environment
     • Non associative
       • Habituation
       • Sensitization

2. Skills

   • Processes that once learned can be applied as a routine
     • Motor
       • Mental representation of what the body wants to do
     • Cognitive
       • Process once learned can be applied tools used to comprehend reality and its functions
     • Perceptive
       • Stimuli sensitization
         • Detect the absence or presence of a stimulus
       • Discrimination
         • Detect the difference between two stimuli

3. Information

   • The information is distinction between two long term memories
     • Semantic
       • Data and facts
         • Learned through multiple tries
     • Episodic
       • Personal narratives
         • Very context dependent
           • Its more emotionally charged