Types of
Learning
Directions
 Go
through this power point and fill out
the first page of your outline
 Make
sure you answer the questions in
your blue book as directed
Learning is …
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A change in behavior that results from a
previous experience
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( behavior can be observable or a
thought)
Give me an example- write it in
your bluebook
 Identify
week.
 Think
something you learned in the past
about the definition of learning- how
do you know you learned something?
Factors that affect Learning
(part of cognitive learning)
Feedback
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- must be descriptive rather than evaluative,
timely,
welcome,
Useful
specific
Attention
 Focusing
on the correct thing
Practice
 Doing
something over and over again
Mental Practice
 Going
over something in your mind
Think about it
 Does
mentally practicing physical skills
make you better at the skill?
The next slide has a lot of
words!
 Rewrite
 It
the definition in your own words
needs to make sense to you!
Classical Conditioning
A learning process in which something that had not
previously produced a particular response (NS)
becomes associated with something that
produces the response(UCS). As a result, the
conditioned stimulus will elicit the response that
the unconditioned stimulus produces.
Elicit means to …
 evoke or draw out (a response, answer, or fact)
from someone in reaction to one's own actions or
questions.
 Important- classical conditioning has to do with
things that go on inside of our body …physiological
responses such as heart rate and feelings,
Classical Cond. examples
1) Learning to feel upset at the sight of flashing
police lights in your rearview mirror.
2) Learning to feel anxiety when you hear the
sounds at the dentist’s office
3) Feeling tender emotions when you hear a
song that was associated with your first romance
Write your own example in your bluebook
Operant conditioning
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Learning in which the consequence that
follows a behavior increases or decreases
the likelihood that the behavior happens
again
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Important- you make a choice to do or not
do the behavior
Operant conditioning
examples
 Sue
jumps off the third platform at Hidden Hollow
and smacks her arm. She doesn’t jump off again.
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( smacking her arm on the water decreases the
chance she will do it again)
 Jim
cuts his neighbor’s lawn and gets yelled at
because he didn’t do it right. He doesn’t cut it
again
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( the yelling decreases the chance he will do it again)
 Joe
is paid for cutting the lawn. He cuts the lawn
weekly.
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( the money increases the chance that he will do it
again)
Think about it…
 In
all of the operant conditioning
examples the person chose a behavior
because of the consequences of past
behavior.
 In
your bluebook, write your own example
of operant conditioning
Cognitive Learning
 Learning
which involves mental processes such as
attention and memory may be learned through
observation or imitation
 may
not involve external rewards
 (remember
there are factors that affect this)
What type of learning?
-
write it in your blue book, there may be more than one answer
1. Completing an algebra problem
2. Increased heart rate when going to the
dentist
3. Getting hungry everyday at 12:00
4. Leaving class when the bell rings
5. Showing up late for class, getting a
detention and not showing up late again