A Self-Study Guide to General
Psychology
(General Psychology /
Introduction To Psychology)
VII. Learning
A. Define Learning.
B. Know the various Types of Association Learning.
Describe the Classic Experiment associated with each
theory of learning. State and explain the laws,
concepts and principles related with these theories.
1. Thorndike's Connectionism
1.1. Thorndike's Experiment
1.2. Law of Exercise
1.3. Law of Effect
2. Pavlov's Classical Conditioning
2.1. Pavlov's Experiment
2.2. Unconditioned Stimulus and
Conditioned Stimulus
2.3. Unconditioned Response and
Conditioned Response
2.4. Law of Excitation
2.5. Law of Internal Inhibition
2.6. Reinforcement
2.7. Stimulus Generalization
2.8. Extinction
2.9. Spontaneous Recovery and
Other
Concepts
3. Skinner's Operant Conditioning
3.1. Skinner's Experiment
3.2. Operant Behavior
3.3. Types of Reinforcement
3.3a. Primary and Secondary
3.3b. Positive and Negative
3.4. Schedules of Reinforcements
3.5. Punishment
3.6. Generalization
3.7. Extinction
C. Know Bandura's Social Learning Theory.
Describe the Classic Experiment associated
with it.
Explain the concepts of Modeling and Imitation.
D. Know the Cognitive Theories of Learning
and
the Experiments associated with them.
1. Kohler's Insight Learning
2. Tolman's Sign Learning