Chapter 5: Direct Learning and Human Potential
Learning Objectives
- Describe operational and adaptive definitions of learning
- Relate classical and instrumental conditioning to prediction and control
- Describe acquisition, extinction, and spontaneous recovery, showing how the phenomenon of spontaneous recovery indicates that extinction does not result in unlearning
- Describe how research findings related to Pavlov’s stimulus substitution model of classical conditioning resulted in the current predictive learning model
- Describe how classical conditioning relates to the acquisition of word meaning , prejudice, and emotional reactions
- Describe Skinners’ and the adaptive learning schemas of control learning
- Provide examples of short-term and long-term stimulus-response chains
- Describe Skinner’s schema for categorizing intermittent schedules of reinforcement
