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Learning Any relatively permanent change in behavior (or behavior potential) produced by experience

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Learning. Any relatively permanent change in behavior (or behavior potential) produced by experience. Association. We learn by association Our minds naturally connect events that occur in sequence Aristotle 2000 years ago John Locke and David Hume 200 years ago Associative Learning - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Learning

Any relatively permanent change in behavior (or behavior potential) produced by experience

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Association

We learn by association Our minds naturally connect events that

occur in sequence Aristotle 2000 years ago John Locke and David Hume 200 years ago

Associative Learning learning that two events occur together

two stimuli a response and its consequences

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Classical or Pavlovian Conditioning

We learn to associate two stimuli

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Classical Conditioning

Ivan Pavlov studies digestion in dogs (1904) Conditions dogs to salivate to a sound (bell

or buzzer) Determines formula for the conditioning

process UCS = UCR NS + UCS = UCR CS = CR

Best case: NS precedes UCS Worst case: NS follows UCS

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Classical ConditioningUCS(passionate kiss) UCR

(sexualarousal)

CS(onionbreath)

CS(onion breath) CR

(sexualarousal)

UCS(passionate Kiss) UCR

(sexualarousal)

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Characteristics of Conditioning Generalization: the tendency of stimuli

similar to the original conditioned stimulus to evoke a similar conditioned response

Discrimination: to be able to differentiate between stimuli

Extinction: a process by which the effects of conditioning are reduced and finally disappear

Spontaneous recovery: the reappearance of a learned response after its apparent extinction

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Characteristics of Conditioning (cont.)

Higher-order conditioning: a neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus through association with an already established conditioned stimulus

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Operant Conditioning

We learn to associate a response and its consequence

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Operant Conditioning

Definition: behavior is shaped by the consequences it produces

We “learn” by doing things that produce positive outcomes and/or allow us to avoid negative outcomes (sometimes negative is better than none at all)

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Operant Conditioning

Reinforcer any event that strengthens the

behavior it follows Shaping

operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer approximations of a desired goal

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Operant Conditioning (cont.)

Primary reinforcers: they satisfy a biological need – food, water, sex (we need to feel a deficit of it for it to be a reinforcer)

Secondary reinforcers: they take on the ability to reinforce – e.g. money, status, praise

Positive reinforcers: the behavior is strengthened to get the reward

Negative reinforcers: the behavior is strengthened to avoid the reinforcer

Punishment: the behavior is weakened to avoid the reinforcer

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Operant Conditioning

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Punishment

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Schedules of Reinforcement

Continuous Reinforcement reinforcing the desired response each time

it occurs Partial (Intermittent) Reinforcement

reinforcing a response only part of the time results in slower acquisition greater resistance to extinction

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Schedules of Reinforcement

Fixed Ratio (FR) Schedule reinforces a response only after a

specified number of responses faster you respond the more rewards

you get different ratios very high rate of responding like piecework pay

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Schedules of Reinforcement

Variable Ratio (VR) reinforces a response after an

unpredictable number of responses

average ratios like gambling, fishing very hard to extinguish because

of unpredictability

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Schedules of Reinforcement

Fixed Interval (FI) reinforces a response only after

a specified time has elapsed response occurs more

frequently as the anticipated time for reward draws near

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Schedules of Reinforcement

Variable Interval (VI) reinforces a response at

unpredictable time intervals produces slow steady responding like pop quiz

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Schedules of Reinforcement

Variable Interval

Number of responses

1000

750

500

250

010 20 30 40 50 60 70

Time (minutes)

Fixed Ratio

Variable Ratio

Fixed Interval

Steady responding

Rapid respondingnear time forreinforcement

80

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Operant vs Classical Conditioning

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Cognition and Operant Conditioning

Cognitive Map mental representation of the layout of

one’s environment Example: after exploring a maze, rats act

as if they have learned a cognitive map of it

Latent Learning learning that occurs, but is not apparent

until there is an incentive to demonstrate it

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Cognition and Operant Conditioning

Intrinsic Motivation desire to perform a behavior for

its own sake and to be effective Extrinsic Motivation

desire to perform a behavior due to promised rewards or threats of punishments

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Observational Learning

Observational Learning learning by observing others

Modeling process of observing and imitating a specific behavior

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Observational Learning

Alfred Bandura’s Experiments Bobo doll we look and we learn

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Observational Learning

Prosocial Behavior positive, constructive, helpful behavior

opposite of antisocial behavior

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Television and Observational Learning