• what contributes to learning?
• how did you learn the environment of learning?
• reflect on how you learned behavior
• star charts, rewarded for certain behavior, verbal praise
• reactions to grade on exam
• reward, repeating things
• learn things through associations

learning objectives

• what is learning?
• classical conditioning
• operant conditioning
• observational learning

learning, habituation and sensitization

• learning: the acquisition of new knowledge, skills, that result in a relatively permanant change in the state of learner
• habituation: simplest form of learning, learning through repeated or prolonged exposure to a stimulus, learning = reduction in response
  • learn not to respond to something
  • some neuro-disorders = lack of habituation
• sensitization: simple form of learning that occurs when presentation of a stimulus leads to an increased response to a later stimulus

pavlovian/classical conditioning

• classical conditioning: type of leanring that occurs when a neutral stimulus produces a response after being paired with a stimulus that natually produces a response

• pavlon studies dogs