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Midterm Review

Midterm Review. Chapters 1 & 2. Definition of Learning Change in behaviour due to experience Behaviour & Evolution Types of selection: natural, artificial, sexual Selection works on physical features as well as behaviours Limits to selection Evolved modifiabililty Evolution of learning.

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Midterm Review

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  1. Midterm Review

  2. Chapters 1 & 2 • Definition of Learning • Change in behaviour due to experience • Behaviour & Evolution • Types of selection: natural, artificial, sexual • Selection works on physical features as well as behaviours • Limits to selection • Evolved modifiabililty • Evolution of learning

  3. Chapters 1 & 2 • Innate behaviours • Reflexes • Fixed Action Patterns • General Behaviour Traits • Simple types of learning • Sensitization • Habituation

  4. Chapters 1 & 2 • The science of studying learning • Operational definitions • Ways to measure learning • Ways to study learning • Anecdotal, naturalistic, case studies, descriptive, experimental • Experimental studies • Types of variables • Different designs • Evaluating Research • Validity, Reliability, Biases, Blind-procedures

  5. Chapter 3 • Brief history • Terminology & Basic procedures • Ways to measure conditioning • Intensity, probes, suppression • S-S association • Higher-order conditioning

  6. Chapter 3 • Types • Delay, Trace, Simultaneous, Backwards, Inhibitory • Factors affecting conditioning • How it all works… • Acquisition curves • Extinction, spontaneous recovery, re-acquisition • Theories • Stimulus Substitution, Preparatory Response

  7. Chapter 4 • Conditional Emotional Response • Fear, Prejudice • Little Albert & Peter • Counter-conditioning, systematic desensitization • Advertising • Paraphilia • Aversion therapy • Taste aversion • Immune Function

  8. Chapter 5 & 6 • Differences between operant & classical • Brief history (Thorndike, Skinner) • Law of Effect • Discrete vs Free operant • Contingencies • Shaping, Chaining & Secondary reinforcers • Factors affecting reinforcement & punishment

  9. Chapters 5 & 6 • Theories • Drive Reduction theory, Relative Value theory (Premack Principle), Response Deprivation theory • Escape, Avoidance & Punishment • Two-process, One-process • Learned Helplessness • Alternatives to punishment • Differential reinforcement, non-contingent reinforcement

  10. Chapters 5 & 6 • Latent Learning • Importance of reinforcement/punishment in learning

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