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Learning is....
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Learning is an enduring change in the mechanisms of behavior involving specific stimulus and/or responses that result from prior experience with the same stimuli and responses
*mechanisms because there is something that changes behavior |
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Learning/Performance Distinction
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You have to make sure there aren't underlying causes of performance.
a. drugs b. fatigue c. motivation |
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Tolmon & Honzik (1931)
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study to figure out underlying causes of performance. gave rats a complex maze. but food always, food never, and food halfway through the trials. noticed that rats that never got food never decreased in response time. noticed that rats that always got food decreased in response time. and those that got it half way at first did not decrease but then decreased right away.
*motivation plays role |
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Decartes
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reflexes and involuntary movement/behavior stems from "animal spirits"
these behaviors were fixed by anatomy Pavlov disproved Decartes theory |
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nativists vs. empiricists
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nativists- inborn knowledge
empiricists - tabula rasa, born with a blank slate this ss for the study of mind and voluntary behavior |
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Hobbes and Hedonism
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Hedonism- the pursuit of please and avoidance of pain
supports Aristotle's theory that we learn by association |
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learning attemps to understand...
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basic processes
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