Learning set (Harlow)

GLOSSARY TERMS
• Learning set:
• The influence of learning set on future learning:

Observational learning (Bandura)

GLOSSARY TERMS
• Observational learning (modelling):
• Attention:
• Retention:
• Reproduction:
• Motivation- Reinforcement:
• Bandura’s Bo-Bo doll experiments with observational learning in children:

Comparison of theories

GLOSSARY TERMS
• Role of learner:
• Timing of stimulus and response:
• Nature of response (reflexive/voluntary):

Operant conditioning (Skinner)

GLOSSARY TERMS
• Skinner’s original experiments:
___o Skinner box:
___o Operant conditioning:
___o Operant:
• Acquisition:
• Extinction:
• Spontaneous recovery:
• Stimulus generalisation:
• Stimulus discrimination:

Trial and error learning (Thorndike)

GLOSSARY TERMS
• Thorndike’s puzzle-box experiment:

One-trial learning

GLOSSARY TERMS
• Taste aversion:
• Distinction between one trial learning and classical conditioning:

Ethics (Watson)

GLOSSARY TERMS
• Watson’s experiments with little Albert:
• Ethical issues in conditioning research:

Classical conditioning (Pavlov)

GLOSSARY TERMS
• Pavlov’s original experiments:
___o Classical conditioning:
___o Stimulus:
___o Conditioned reflex:
• Unconditioned stimulus (UCS):
• Unconditioned response (UCR):
• Conditioned stimulus (CS):
• Conditioned response (CR):
• Process of acquisition:
• Stimulus discrimination:
• Stimulus generalisation:
• Process of extinction:
• Spontaneous recovery:

Behaviours not dependent on learning

GLOSSARY TERMS
• Learning:
• Conditioning:
• Hypothetical construct:
• Reflex action:
• Fixed-action patterns (FAP):
• Behaviours due to maturation: