Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Behavioral learning theories

Behavioral learning theories

definition

Original proponents

Proponents/associate

1. classical/respondent conditioning

· reflex response to stimulus

Ivan Pavlov

Vlademir Bechterev

Ivan Sechenov

2. operant/ instrumental conditioning

· Reinforcement thru reward and punishment

Edward Thorndike

Barrhus F. Skinner

3. social cognitive conditioning

· association between stimulus in environment thru observation

Albert Bandura

Edward Tolman

Walter Mischel

  1. classical/respondent conditioning

· Ivan Pavlov, Vlademir Bechterev, Ivan Sechenov

o Pavlovian reinforcement

o Russian psychologists

o Comparative psychology

§ (using animals instead of humans for laboratory research.)

· Unconditioned response

o (natural to happen)

· Neutral stimulus

o (no definite reaction)

o Aim is to condition a response by repetition

· Conditioned response

o (not natural to happen)

o Elicits a condition response

o Higher order of conditioning

UCS + NS1 = CS1 with CR1

NS1 + NS2 = NS2 = CS2 = CR2

Pairing:

NS1 + NS2

NS1 + UCS = CS1

NS2 = CS2

· Ivan Pavlov’s concept of respondent learning

o Spontaneous recovery

§ reemergence of conditioned responses (CRs) which have previously undergone extincting training

o Extinction

§ No reward or punishment

o Generalization

§ Similarities of stimulus

o Discrimination

§ different responses to different stimuli

o Higher order learning/conditioning

§ a stimulus is first made meaningful or consequential for an organism through an initial step of learning, and then that stimulus is used as a basis for learning about some new stimulus.

  1. operant/ instrumental conditioning
    • Behavior modification

o Barrhus F. Skinner

Present

stimulus

C – I

+ reinforcement

C – II

+ punishment


C –V

Extinction


Remove

stimulus

C – III

- punishment

C – IV

- reinforcement


  1. social cognitive conditioning

to be continued..............

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