Learning Theory
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- Created on: 10-01-14 09:43
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- Learning Theory
- Classical conditioning
- We make an attachment with our main food provider in order to stay alive
- Step 1) Food (UCS) -> Dog drooles (UCR)
- Step 2) Food (UCS) + Bell (UCS) -> Dog Drooles (UCR)
- Step 3) Bell (CS) -> Dog Drooles (CR)
- Step 2) Food (UCS) + Bell (UCS) -> Dog Drooles (UCR)
- Operant Conditioning
- Explaination by the behaviourists.
- Occors when babies are rewarded for doing something i.e crying
- Baby performs action (e.g. cries) -> Baby is rewarded (e.g. food)-> learns to reinforce behaviour and so repeats action
- Dollard and Miller (1950)- hunger provides drive to reduce discomfort. When infant is fed-provies pleasure.
- Weaknesses- Harlows Monkeys, Schaffer and Emerson
- Strengths- it can provide an adequate explaination oh how attachment is formed.
- Validity- Studies largly based on animals. Behaviour maybe different.
- Classical conditioning
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