Learning

Learning

1. The process of acquiring new thoughts, emotions or behaviours

2. Classical conditioning learning via association

   • Unconditioned response behaviours that don't need to be taught
     • Unconditioned stimulus stimulus that causes a response without being taught to
   • Conditioned response responses that have to be learnt
     • Conditioned stimulus stimulus that causes a response only after being learnt to
   • 1. Before conditioning
     • 2. During conditioning (acquisition)
       • 3. After conditioning (performance)
         • CS = CR
       • UCS and CS are paired together
       • Contiguity - the time interval in the presentation of the CS and UCS is important
         • Contingency - the predictability of occurrence of 1 stimulus from the presence of another
         • Learning will only occur if the events occur relatively close together
     • UCS = UCR, CS = nothing
   • Reinforcement

3. Operant conditioning