Learning and Development Psych.

Learning and Development Psych.

1. Observer- watching the behavior take place

   • Bobo Doll Study
     • Albert Bandura
       • Invited children to play with different toys alongside an adult.
         • Adult punches doll and children are observed to see if they take on the behavior of the adult
   • "Vicarious" Reinforcement/ Punishment
     • expiernced by someone else that has a reinforcing/ punishing effect on their own behavior

2. Four Stages of of Expeirnece:

   • Attention
     • are they doing something unsual?
   • Rentention
     • remember the behavior to preform later
   • Motor Reproduction
     • can we mimic that behavior?
   • Motivation
     • Do I want that action to happen to me?

3. Behaviorism

   • psych. should be an objective science that studies observable behavior without reference to mental processes

4. Classical Conditioning:

   • Learning to associate stimuli and involuntary behavior (reflexive)
   • Pavlovs Dogs: easier to keep dogs in a lab than humans, studied how slavation aids in the digestion process
   • Unconditioned Stimulus
     • Unconditioned Response:
       • Conditioned Stimulus
         • previously nuetral stimulus that comes to make a conditioned response through associated unconditioned stimulus
       • Response made by stimulus
     • an automatic response
   • Acquistion:
     • acquiring a new response
   • Extinction:
     • disappreance of the Condistioned respoinse
   • Spomtaneous Recovery:
     • temporary REappreance of a conditiond response following presentation of a conditioned stimulus after extincton has taken place
   • Discrimination:
     • distinguishing between CS and other stimulus
   • Generlization:
     • extension of CR from CS to similar, but NEW Stimuli
   • Conditioned Response:
     • a learned response that did NOT originally elicit a response
   • Timing:
     • close in time and helps us better adapt and its a warning signal
     • Consistency:
       • do we expiernce both stimuli?
       • Intensity:
         • how intense are the stimuli?
         • One- Trial Learning:
           • ex.) Car accident
           • one pairing might not be enough to elicit a response going forward in the future.

5. Operant Conditioning:

   • you choose to make this behavior
     • Skinner Box
       • a box with electric flow that gives rats shock if they do a behavior
   • Reinforcement
     • event that increases the probablity that the proceeding action will be repeated in the future
   • Puniishment
     • event that decreases the probability that the proceeding action will be repeated in the future