Learning

Learning

1. Habituation

   • Occurs when you no longer notice a stimulus due to repeat experience. Ex: If you live near a hospital, you get used the hearing the ambulance, eventually ignoring it. 

2. Instinctive Drift

   • Occurs when a behavior stops occurring and starts going back to normal behavior > Common in animals

3. Latent Learning

   • A type of learning that occurs, but it isn't really demonstrated until something reinforces or provokes the behavior. Ex. Your friend drives you to school. When your friend gets sick, you could drive yourself to school, as you learned what roads to take.

4. Insight Learning

   • A type of learning that requires the ability to visualize the problem and solution internally. >It is not the result of trial+error, observations, or a stimulus.

5. Classical Conditioning

   • When you learn to associate a stimulus w/ a behavior Ex: A pet fish can learn to come up to the top when someone enters the room.
   • Ivan Pavlov
     • A behaviorist who discovered classical conditioning.  > He was studying the digestion of dogs. > He taught the dogs to salivate @ the sound of a buzzer by associating the buzzer with blowing meat powder into the dog's mouth
   • Unconditioned Stimulus
     • A stimulus that causes a behavior that the animal/person didn't learn
   • Unconditioned Response
     • The natural response/behavior towards the unconditioned stimulus
   • Conditioned Stimulus
     • A stimulus that becomes associated w/ the unconditioned stimulus
   • Conditioned Response
     • The response that is related to the conditioned stimulus. 
   • Acquisition
     • When a stimulus+response pair is introduced. >Timing is an important fact
   • Extinction
     • Opposite of acquisition; when an association of a stimulus+response pair is unlearned.