Learning
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- Learning
- Types
- Operant
- Learning due to the consequences of behaviour, through positive reinforcement or negative reinforcement
- Law of Effect
- Behaviours that are followed by rewards are usually repeated, those that are punished are not
- Punishment
- A stimulus that weakens behaviour because it is unpleasant.
- Operant
- Learning due to the consequences of behaviour, through positive reinforcement or negative reinforcement
- Law of Effect
- Behaviours that are followed by rewards are usually repeated, those that are punished are not
- Punishment
- A stimulus that weakens behaviour because it is unpleasant.
- A stimulus that weakens behaviour because it is unpleasant.
- Punishment
- Behaviours that are followed by rewards are usually repeated, those that are punished are not
- Reinforcement
- A consequence of behaviour that encourages or strengthens a behaviour.
- Positive reinforcement
- A reward or pleasant consequence that increases the likelihood that a behaviour or action will be repeated.
- Negative reinforcement
- When an unpleasant experience is removed after a behaviour or action has been made. This increases likelihood of repetition of behaviour.
- Operant
- A stimulus that weakens behaviour because it is unpleasant.
- Punishment
- Behaviours that are followed by rewards are usually repeated, those that are punished are not
- Reinforcement
- A consequence of behaviour that encourages or strengthens a behaviour.
- Positive reinforcement
- A reward or pleasant consequence that increases the likelihood that a behaviour or action will be repeated.
- Negative reinforcement
- When an unpleasant experience is removed after a behaviour or action has been made. This increases likelihood of repetition of behaviour.
- Classical
- A procedure during which an animal or person learns to associate a reflex response with a new stimulus.
- UCS
- The stimulus that produce a reflex response
- UCR
- The reflex response to an UCS
- CS
- A new stimulus presented with the UCS
- CR
- The response that is learnt; it now occurs when the CS is presented
- Extinction
- Spontaneous recovery
- A CR that has disappeared suddenly appears again
- A CR dies out
- Spontaneous recovery
- Spontaneous recovery
- A CR that has disappeared suddenly appears again
- Generalisation
- The CR is produced when a similar stimulus to the original CS is presented
- Discimination
- The CR is only produced when a specific stimulus is presented
- Applications
- Advertising
- Treatment of phobias
- Flooding
- A treatment for phobias that involves the immediate exposure of the person to the feared object, activity or event until there is no fear response
- Ethical implications
- Loss of right to withdraw
- Psychological harm
- Systematic disensitisation
- A treatment for phobias in which the person is taught to relax
- Hierarchy of fears
- A series of feared events ranked from least frightening to most frightening
- Flooding
- Operant
- Definition
- A relatively permanent change in behaviour due to experience.
- Types
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