Learning Theory
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- Created on: 09-01-13 09:40
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- Learning Theory
- Dollard and Miller
- AO1
- Conditioning
- Reward and punishment
- Positive and negative reinforcement
- Reward and punishment
- Drive Reduction
- Food
- Takes away hunger
- Associates with mother
- Comfort and security
- Secondary reinforcer
- Associates with mother
- Primary reinforcer
- Takes away hunger
- Food
- Social learning theory
- Bandura
- Observation and imitation
- Conditioning
- Research
- Lorenz
- Showed attachment can occur through imprinting
- Goslings
- Against
- No food involved
- Harlow
- Monkeys
- Monkeys preferred clothed 'mother'
- Against
- Contact comfort superior to drive reduction
- Monkeys preferred clothed 'mother'
- Contact comfort superior to drive reduction
- Shaffer & Emmerson
- Scottish babies
- In 39% of cases main attachment not formed with person who usually fed and changed them
- Against
- Shaffer & Emmerson
- Scottish babies
- In 39% of cases main attachment not formed with person who usually fed and changed them
- Against
- Against
- Shaffer & Emmerson
- Against
- Lorenz
- Evaluation
- Most research carried out on animals
- Questionable whether applies to humans
- Reductionist
- Simplifies complex human behaviours to simple responses
- Comfort and security more important than food
- See research
- Most research carried out on animals
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