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Unit 3: Individual Behaviour
Quick questions on Learning and Memory - TCE Psychology (Tasmania)
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What is classical conditioning?Show answer
Classical conditioning is learning by association, first studied by Ivan Pavlov (1900s) with dogs. Pavlov noticed dogs salivated to food, then paired a bell with the food repeatedly.
What is operant conditioning?Show answer
Operant conditioning is learning through consequences, developed by B. F. Skinner (1930s-50s) using the "Skinner box." Behaviour followed by reinforcement is more likely to recur; behaviour followed by punishment is less likely.
What is observational learning?Show answer
Albert Bandura's social learning theory holds that we learn by watching models, without direct reinforcement. In the Bobo doll experiment (1961), children who watched an adult act aggressively toward an inflatable doll later imitated that aggression more than children who saw a non-aggressive or no model.
What is the multi-store model of memory?Show answer
Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) proposed three stores:
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