Classical Conditioning, Insight Learning, And Latent Learning Process

The Learning Paper There are many different types of Learning processes that were discovered or observed by well known and respected Psychologists throughout the years. Today we will learn about four of them: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Insight Learning, and Latent Learning. We can learn many fascinating things about the way animals and humans learn through their research. As we were talking about classical conditioning in class I realized that I have an example of classical conditioning in my own life. In my case, the neutral stimulus is the tone my iPhone makes when I receive a text message. At one point the tone meant nothing to me other than to notify me that I had received a text message. However, over the last few months I have been going through a pretty unpleasant separation from my husband. Most of our interaction during this time has been through text and virtually all of has been …show more content…
It’s not until you need the information that you realize you have what you need to solve the problem. My Grandmother was an avid knitter when I was a kid. I spent hours watching over her shoulder as she knitted blankets and sweaters. I didn’t realize then that I was learning, I just liked watching the way her hands moved as the metal needles scraped each other. When I was Twenty-eight years old a friend offered to teach me how to knit. We sat down one afternoon and within a couple of hours I was knitting with ease. Though I had never knitted before myself, knitting felt very familiar and I already recognized the patterns from watching my grandmother. It’s like I instinctively understood the process and bypassed that beginners stage in knitting where your tension is wonky and there are holes in your chain and dropped stitches. All those hours spent watching my grandmother helped the process come very naturally because I already had knowledge that I didn’t even know that I