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Page 1: Factors Affecting Learning. Transfer Transfer Previously learned tasks play a role in learning new tasks Positive Transfer Previously learned responses

Factors Affecting Learning

Page 2: Factors Affecting Learning. Transfer Transfer Previously learned tasks play a role in learning new tasks Positive Transfer Previously learned responses

Transfer Previously learned tasks play a role in learning new tasks

Positive Transfer Previously learned

responses help learn a new task

Ex: Knowing Spanish can help you learn French

Low-Road Transfer Learned skill used in a

new, but similar setting Ex: Driving someone

else’s car

Negative Transfer Previously learned

responses obstructs learning

Ex: Grammar rules, “I before E except after C” Species.

High-Road Transfer Learned skill used in a

new, and different setting

Ex: Learning to drive a manual transmission having only driven automatic

Page 3: Factors Affecting Learning. Transfer Transfer Previously learned tasks play a role in learning new tasks Positive Transfer Previously learned responses

Learning to Learn

Harry Harlow

Animals can learn to learn

Monkey had to find a raisin underneath a lid Always under the same

lid Monkey learned this Changed lids, still under

the same one

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Learned BehaviorsLearned

Helplessness

Pain comes no matter the effort

Major cause of depression

College kids and loud music

Learned Laziness

Rewards come without effort

Never learn to work

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Learned Helplessness

Seligman sees 3 important elementsStability: helplessness comes from

permanent characteristicBelieving there is nothing you can do to

get good gradesGlobality: specificity of the helplessness

Believing you are no good at psychology, or no good in school

Internality: “where” the problem isBelieving you are no good at psychology,

or I am not a good teacher

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Shaping

Reinforcement is used to sculpt new responses out of old ones

Rewarding small actions to build up to larger ones.

Educational uses

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Practice

The repetition of a task

Helps to bind responses together

Causes smooth, fluent movement from response to response

Better to practice over a period of time

Mental practice

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Learning Complicated Skills

Most activities are more than single stimulus and response

Shaping shows us what responses are needed

Must be able to put new responses together

Response Chains: responses that follow one another in sequence Brushing your teeth

Response Patterns: combining several response chains Getting ready for bed

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Response Chains

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Modeling

Group learning – behavior of others increases our chance of joining in on that behaviorStanding ovation

Observational Learning – we watch someone perform a behavior and then later we do it ourselvesLearning to talk

Disinhibition – watch someone engage in threatening activity with no punishments, lose fear of activityPublic speaking