1. Learning What does it mean to learn something?
How do you know you’ve learned?

2. Learning
A relatively permanent change in behavior that results from experience
Seal balances ball receives food
Balances ball again to gain more food

3. How do we learn? Most learning is associative learning
Learning that certain events occur together.

4. A brief overview of each
3 types of Learning
Classical Conditioning
Operant Conditioning
Observational Learning
A brief overview of each
and
things we will look at

5. Classical Conditioning
Do you cringe at the sound of a dentist’s drill??
Do you salivate when passing your favorite restaurant??
How did you learn these behaviors?
It all started with Ivan Pavlov, his dogs, and classical conditioning
A type of learning where a stimulus (something that we can respond to) gains the power to cause a behavior or action

6. Operant Conditioning
This is the Reinforcement and punishment type of learning
Learning in which the frequency of a behavior depends on the consequence that follows that behavior
Touching a hot oven
learn not to touch same hot oven because of reinforcement of behavior
burning hand

7. “The Law of Effect”
“Any behavior that has good consequences will be repeated and any behavior that has bad consequences will be avoided”
Edward Thorndike

8. Observational Learning
Learning by observing others
learning that occurs as a function of observing, retaining and replicating behavior observed in others

9. Bandura and the Bobo Dolls

10. Observational Learning influenced debates on the effect of television violence and parental role models

11. Antisocial models vs. prosocial models

12. Classical Conditioning and Little Baby Albert
How about fear?
Are we born with it or do we acquire it??
Classical Conditioning and Little Baby Albert