Essay About Types Of Associative Learning And Associative Learning

Topics on P101 Exam #3
Topics on P101 Exam #3:
Chapter 4:
Consciousness (arousal and awareness)
6 levels of awareness
Biological rhythms & circadian rhythms
Stages of wakefulness and sleep
Characteristics of the brain waves for each stage
Main behavioral characteristics of each stage
SCN and its role in sleep
3 main neurotransmitters in sleep
Common sleep disorders
Sleep patterns over the lifespan
Need for sleep/effects of no sleep,
Altered states of consciousness (mainly psychoactive drugs)
Addiction (what it is)
What are the categories or drugs (hallucinogens, depressants, stimulants)
What they mainly do (stimulants increase activity in the brain, for example)
Chapter 5:
What is learning?
What is associative learning?
What is conditioning?
2 types of Associative Learning (classical & operant)
Pavlov, Watson, Skinner (their main contributions)
Classical conditioning (definition, terms and characteristics)
Acquisition, contiguity, contingency, generalization, discrimination, etc)
Operant Conditioning (definition, reinforcement, punishment)
positive/negative reinforcement
positive/negative punishment
Types of reinforcers,
generalization, discrimination, extinction
Schedules of reinforcement
Fixed ad variable ratio
Fixed and variable interval
Other (more recent) types of Learning:
Observational Learning Model (Bandura)
Purposive Learning (purposive, latent) (Tolman)
Insight Learning (Kohler)
Psychological constraints