Chapter 1 Flashcards
What is Learning
an enduring change in the mechanisms of behavior involving specific stimuli and/or responses that results from prior experience with those or similar stimuli.
What is the difference between performance and Learning?
Performance is characterized by the actions of an organism at a particular time while learning is defined by an enduring change in behavior’s mechanisms.
What is the fundamental way in which we learn?
Trough associations.
What are associations?
Connection that becomes established between two stimuli which the occurrence of one stimulus activates the representation of the other.
In the rules of associations; what is the difference between the rule of contiguity and similarity?
In the rule of contiguity, it is said that if 2 events occur together in space and time then they’ll become associated whereas in the rule of similarity, it said that of 2 things are associated then they are bound to be similar.
Through what kind of technique arose Social Learning Theory?
Through observational Learning - ARPPMOL (Attention, Retention, Production Processes, Motivation)
Did Bell & Magendie defined intelligence in terms of the ability to learn?
False, Romanes defined intelligence in terms of the ability to learn. Bell & Magendie showed separate nerves are involved in sensory info transmission from the organs to the CNS as well as motor info from CNS to to muscles.
