Types of Learning

Directions Go through this power point and fill out

the first page of your outline

Make sure you answer the questions in your blue book as directed

Learning is … A change in behavior that results from a

previous experience

( behavior can be observable or a thought)

Give me an example- write it in your bluebook

Identify something you learned in the past week.

Think about the definition of learning- how do you know you learned something?

Factors that affect Learning(part of cognitive learning)

Feedback - must be descriptive rather than evaluative, timely, welcome, Useful specific

Attention Focusing on the correct thing

Practice Doing something over and over again

Mental Practice Going over something in your mind

Think about it Does mentally practicing physical skills

make you better at the skill?

The next slide has a lot of words! Rewrite the definition in your own words

It needs to make sense to you!

Classical ConditioningA learning process in which something that had

not previously produced a particular response (NS) becomes associated with something that produces the response(UCS).  As a result, the conditioned stimulus will elicit the response that the unconditioned stimulus produces.

Elicit means to … evoke or draw out (a response, answer, or fact)

from someone in reaction to one's own actions or questions.

Important- classical conditioning has to do with things that go on inside of our body …physiological responses such as heart rate and feelings,

Classical Cond. examples1)    Learning to feel upset at the sight of flashing police lights in your rearview mirror.

2)    Learning to feel anxiety when you hear the sounds at the dentist’s office

3)    Feeling tender emotions when you hear a song that was associated with your first romance

Write your own example in your bluebook

Operant conditioning

Learning in which the consequence that follows a behavior increases or decreases the likelihood that the behavior happens again

Important- you make a choice to do or not do the behavior

Operant conditioning examples Sue jumps off the third platform at Hidden Hollow

and smacks her arm. She doesn’t jump off again. ( smacking her arm on the water decreases the

chance she will do it again) Jim cuts his neighbor’s lawn and gets yelled at

because he didn’t do it right. He doesn’t cut it again ( the yelling decreases the chance he will do it

again) Joe is paid for cutting the lawn. He cuts the lawn

weekly. ( the money increases the chance that he will do it

again)

Think about it… In all of the operant conditioning

examples the person chose a behavior because of the consequences of past behavior.

In your bluebook, write your own example of operant conditioning

Cognitive Learning Learning which involves mental processes such as

attention and memory may be learned through observation or imitation

may not involve external rewards

(remember there are factors that affect this)

What type of learning?- write it in your blue book, there may be more than one answer

1. Completing an algebra problem2. Increased heart rate when going to the dentist3. Getting hungry everyday at 12:004. Leaving class when the bell rings 5. Showing up late for class, getting a detention and not showing up late again