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Psychology 387 - Learning - Final Study // // // // // //

Guide Questions With Long Answers
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Today, some psychologists argue that forgetting is learning.
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Explain this idea. - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔Some psychs say
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that behaviour comes from stimulus control when we learning
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and the reason we learn is because of those stimuli. But if those
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stimuli aren't present then the behaviour that is associated with
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them originally will not occur. It may not be forgetting but just
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a different learning experience that results n different behaviour.
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Everything, learning and forgetting included, is dependent on the
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context of the situation and cues.
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Does learning inevitable mean progress? Why or why not. -
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CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔The whole premise behind learning is
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that we learn to adapt and change to our environment and
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there for anything we learn has some "value", even if it's just for
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a short period of time. But we can learn in ways that are not
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product to ourselves or our environments in the long runs.
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Which means that not all learning can be considered progress.
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Why has observational learning received less attention then other
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forms of learning? - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔Few different
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reasons, one is that early research in observation learning
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(Thorndike and Watson) was unable to demonstrate
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, observational learning. It wasn't until the 30's that research had
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results showing animals can learn by observation (Warden)
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You hold the patent on a special beard-trimming razor, so it is to
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you advantage if beards are popular. How would you use
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modelling to increase the popularity beards? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS(S)✔✔Peer modelling, you start wearing a beard and
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then in theory people around you would start also wearing
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beards and so on. Commercials could be made to show that
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people with beards are found attractive and receiving
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compliments for their beards.
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Discuss DOE and its implications for discrimination training. -
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CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔DOE or differential outcomes effect
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says that discrimination training happens at a much faster rate
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when different behaviours produce different
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consequences/reinforcers. DOE has proven to be effective in
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learning a second language as demonstrated in research by
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McClelland and colleagues when teaching Japanese students
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english. Also, any type of job where you have to be familiar with
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many different concepts and how those concepts differ from one
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another, would benefit from DOE. Training animals also requires
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the ability to discriminate between smells.
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The chief limitation of natural selection as a means of adapting
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to change is that____. - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔NS is very
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slow. In Gordon's guppy study it took up to 26 generations
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, before any significant adaptations were made and aided in
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survival. Humans take far longer to reach sexual maturity then
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guppies so it could potentially take hundreds of years to see
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successful adaptations. NS is unable to help us adapt when there
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is a rapid change in the environment.
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Learning is a change in behavior due to: - CORRECT
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ANSWERS(S)✔✔A change in behaviour due to experience. In
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order for a species to learn there has be some sort of change in
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their behaviour. The only way these changes can occur is
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through experiences.
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A stimulus is an environmental event that is capable of affecting:
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- CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔A stimulus is an environmental
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event that is capable of affecting behaviour. An example of a
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stimulus is a loud noise and then out behavior is to look
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towards that noise.
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The phase survival of the fittest is often interpreted to mean that
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natural selection is the result of a kind of combat. What would
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be a more accurate interpretation of the phrase? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS(S)✔✔Members of a species that are better able to
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adapt to their environment will be the ones more likely to
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survive and produce offspring. It means that some members of
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species are better equipped to deal with the changes that come
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to them. An example would be some humans participate in risky
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activities like skydiving, while others do not. There is no combat
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