factors affecting learning. transfer transfer previously learned tasks play a role in learning new...
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Factors Affecting Learning
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
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
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
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
Shaping
Reinforcement is used to sculpt new responses out of old ones
Rewarding small actions to build up to larger ones.
Educational uses
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
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
Response Chains
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