LECTURE TOPIC OUTLINE - 9 - LEARNING

• What is learning?
• Learning
• Reinforcement
• Response
• Antecedents & Consequences
• CLASSICAL CONDITIONING
• Pavlov's experiment
• Neutral Stimulus
• Unconditioned stimulus
• Unconditioned response
• Conditioned stimulus
• Conditioned response
• Classical conditioning in everyday life
• Phobias
• Little Albert
• Principles of Classical Conditioning
• Acquisition
• Stimulus contiguity
• Taste Aversion Conditioning
• Extinction
• Spontaneous Recovery
• Stimulus Generalization
• Stimulus Discrimination
• Higher-Order Conditioning
• Desensitization
• Vicarious Conditioning
• OPERANT CONDITIONING (INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING)
• Thorndike's Law of Effect
• Reinforcers
• Acquiring an Operant Response
• Skinner Box - conditioning chamber
• Superstitious behavior
• Contingent reinforcement
• Timing of Reinforcement
• Shaping
• Operant Extinction
• (extinction bursts)
• Negative attention seeking
• Resistance to extinction
• Related to reinforcement scheduling
• Stimulus Control: Generalization & Discrimination
• Operant reinforcers
• Primary reinforcers
• Secondary reinforcers
• Feedback
• SCHEDULES OF REINFORCEMENT
• Continuous
• Partial
• Fixed ratio, variable ratio, fixed interval, variable interval
• REINFORCEMENT - WHAT KINDS ARE THERE?
• Positive reinforcement
• Negative reinforcement (this is not the same thing as punishment!)
• PUNISHMENT - WHAT KINDS ARE THERE?
• Positive punishment
• Negative punishment
• Please refer to Figure 9.21 on page 295 of your book for clarification
• Variables affecting punishment
• Side effects of punishment
• Avoidance learning/escape learning
• MODELING
• Observational learning
• Model
• Bandura & Bo-bo Doll experiment
• COGNITIVE LEARNING
• Cognitive map
• Read what's in the book