Transcript What is Learning

Learning
a relatively permanent change
in behavior due to experience
Associative Learning
learning by linking two events
that occur close together
Classical Conditioning
association of two
stimuli leads to
anitcipation of events
Operant Conditioning
association of a response and
its consequence leads to increase
(or decrease) in behavior
Two events paired
together repeatedly…
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Stimulus
The smell of
pipe tobacco
Response
I look for my
grandfather.
Classical
Conditioning
Minute Meditation: A Day at the Beach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWLO4acMTCM
Operant
Conditioning
What Type of Learning: Operant or Classical Conditioning?
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Maggie’s owner gives her a treat whenever
Maggie obeys her command to shake. Now,
Maggie has learned to raise her paw whenever
someone says, “shake.”
Whenever she hears the sound of the tags on
her outdoor collar and leash jingle, Maggie
knows her owner is going to take her for a
walk. Maggie gets excited and runs to the
door.
When Maggie was a puppy, she sometimes
went potty on the kitchen floor. Maggie’s
owner gently swatted her nose with a rolled
newspaper and told her she was bad whenever
she piddled in the house. Maggie is now
nervous when her owner comes home and even
if she didn’t piddle all day she pees when she
hears her owner’s car in the driveway.