Chapter 5 Lecture Notes Learning

Chapter 5
Learning

Learning is a relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience.

Premack principle: the fact that preferred activities can serve as reinforcers. (clean your room before getting dessert.)

Trace theory of forgetting: Use it or lose it. Most of the population thinks this is the theory of memory.

Retroactive interference is explained by factor X or unlearning.

Shaping = reward gradually

*Know chart for American vs. Russian learning will be a whole pile of questions.

*Continuous reinforcement, intermittent reinforcement

*Primary reinforcer (shift to secondary to avoid extinction)
*Secondary reinforcer
*VI, VR