Notes On Types Of Learning - 1134 Words

Alfredo Toledano Psychology 2012 10/18/2015 Types of Learning In a sense human beings can actually be programmed to react a certain way, we call this learning. In actuality we learn by experiencing certain events which brings forth a permanent behavior. Our learned behaviors may come from nature or nurture. Furthermore we have to keep in mind that not all types of changes in behaviors are due to learning. As previously mentioned, nature contributes to behavior. We are raised to learn as soon as we were babies it starts with the simply and then evolves into more complex processes such as observational, classical and operant learning. Observational learning is observing behaviors from a model and then making them your own by imitation†¦show more content†¦By observing and imitating the behaviors of the wild animals he became a wild animal himself. Tarzan is a prime example of observational learning (Buck, 1999). Classical conditioning is described as learning by association. Where responses are learned by experiences, whenever an unconditioned stimuli, is paired with a neutral stimuli, to elicit an unconditioned response. Which soon after, evolves into a conditioned stimuli and a conditioned response. In short we learn to mesh together two stimuli, and anticipate a matching reaction. The Disney movie Peter Pan, helps us grasp a better understanding of this concept. Although the movie doesn’t go into great detail about how Captain Hook lost his hand, we know that a crocodile bit it off, it does give us some room to assume the events of this story. Every time Captain Hook hears a clock or sees a crocodile he becomes panic stricken. When he sees or hears either of those two things, he thinks a crocodile is going to eat him, which makes him go into a frenzy. Imagine we are present at the incident where captain hook lost his hand. Based on his behavior, we can assume that a clock was prese nt when the crocodile bit off his hand. At that time, the clock was a neutral stimulus, since a clock normally wouldn’t elicit a panic attack. The crocodile was a unconditioned stimuli, since during the incident it caused the unconditioned response of fear and pain to Captain Hook, since the crocodile