Learning
Thoughts on Learning
"Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival."
W. Edwards Demming
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
B.F. Skinner
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
Pablo Picasso
What is Learning?
A relatively permanent change in behavior
that results from experience
Types of Learning
Classical conditioning
Operant conditioning
Cognitive and social learning
Classical Conditioning: Examples
Sound of a dentist's drill: sweaty palms
Smell of mom's perfume: smiling
Sight of certain restaurant: nausea
Noise of a can opener: cat comes running
Smell of a hospital: weakened immunity
Classical Conditioning
Discovered (accidentally) by Ivan Pavlov
Pavlov's Observation
Studied digestion in dogs
Pavlov's Experiment: Phase 1
Food (US): salivation (UR)
Reflexive response
Tone (CS): nothing (CR)
Pavlov's......
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