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1/20/16
Topic II
Learning
Learning -
experience .
Experience is the best key to learning. nature's best gift to us is to learn new
behavior that enables us to adopt to new situation.
*JUST REMEMBER*
CONDITIONE = Learned
UNCONDITIONED = Unlearned
(UCR) Unconditioned Response - In classical conditioning the
unlearned naturally occuring response to the unconditioned stimulus(UCS) such
as salivation when the food is in the mouth.
to distinguish between a
Principles of Reinforcement
Two kind of Reinforcement
1) Positive - Strengthens a response by presenting a stimulus after a response.
2) Negative - Strengthens a response by reducing or removing an aversive
stimulus.
2) Secondary Reinforcement -
primary reinforcement.
Skinner - is regarded as the father of Operant Conditioning but his work was
based on Thorndike's law of effect. Skinner introduce a new term into the law of
effect-reinforcement.
1) Visual - Prefer the use of images,maps and graphic organizers to acces and
understand new information.