Learning theory
- Created by: georgiaharbridge
- Created on: 28-03-16 19:35
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- LEARNING THEORY
- CLASSICAL CONDITIONING
- Unconditioned stimulus (Food)
- Unconditioned response (pleasure)
- Unconditioned stimulus (Food)
- OPERANT CONDITIONING
- Learning to repeat behavoiour, or not, depending on consequences
- Pleasant consequence = repeated again
- Crying = comfort
- Baby is reinforced and carer receives a negative reinforcement
- Two way process
- Unpleasant consequence = less likely to be repeated
- Pleasant consequence = repeated again
- Learning to repeat behavoiour, or not, depending on consequences
- SECONDARY DRIVE
- Drive reduction
- Hunger = primary drive
- Innate
- Eat to reduce hunger drive
- Sears et al. 1957
- Caregiver provides food
- Primary dive of hunger becomes generalised to them
- Caregiver provides food
- Attachment = secondary drive
- Association
- Caregiver and satisfaction of primary drive
- Association
- A03
- Counter evidence from animal research
- Lorenz
- Imprinted before they were fed and maintained, regardless who fed them
- Harlow
- Attached to soft surrogate in preference to wire one that produced milk
- Lorenz
- Counter evidence from human research
- Schaffer and Emerson
- Many babies developed primary attachment to their biological mothers even though other carers did most of the feeding
- No uncondiotioned stimulus or primary drove involved
- Many babies developed primary attachment to their biological mothers even though other carers did most of the feeding
- Schaffer and Emerson
- Counter evidence from animal research
- CLASSICAL CONDITIONING
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