Learning
Note: The limbic system (hypothalamus, thalamus connect
with other areas of the brain including the hippocampus to
form the limbic system. The hippocampus is involved in
learning, reasoning, personality & consolidating
memories into permanent store. The cerebrum
controls voluntary behaviour, leaning, reasoning,
personality & memory.
(Hippocampus in cerebrum)
LEARNING = A relatively permanent change in
behaviour due to past experience.
Learning allows behavioural responses to be modified.
Type of Description Reward Person Example
learning /Punishmen involve
t? d
X X
Habituation Leaning to IGNORE a stimuli Aeroplane over
because they’re followed by house, @ start =
neither reward/punishment startled/annoyed
but learn to get use
to it
Imprinting The young of birds & some Attachment Konrad Konrad Lorenz
mammals respond to the 1st to the object Lorenz imprinted young
larger, moving object they = reinforced geese. He became
see/smell/touch/hear by their ‘mother’ &
REWARDS taught them to fly.
e.g. warmth
& food
Classical ASSOCIATIVE BEHAVIOUR (not Pavlov Pavlov trained dogs
Conditioning Association between a punished or to associate a bell
natural & artificial stimulus to rewarded with food, they
bring about the same initially) responded to the
response sound of the bell
with salvation
Operant ASSOCIATIVE BEHAVIOUR REWARD/ BF Skinner studied
Conditioning Association between a PUNISHME Kinner rats, they were
particular behaviour & a NT rewarded for
reward/punishment pressing a lever
with a food pellet
Note: The limbic system (hypothalamus, thalamus connect
with other areas of the brain including the hippocampus to
form the limbic system. The hippocampus is involved in
learning, reasoning, personality & consolidating
memories into permanent store. The cerebrum
controls voluntary behaviour, leaning, reasoning,
personality & memory.
(Hippocampus in cerebrum)
LEARNING = A relatively permanent change in
behaviour due to past experience.
Learning allows behavioural responses to be modified.
Type of Description Reward Person Example
learning /Punishmen involve
t? d
X X
Habituation Leaning to IGNORE a stimuli Aeroplane over
because they’re followed by house, @ start =
neither reward/punishment startled/annoyed
but learn to get use
to it
Imprinting The young of birds & some Attachment Konrad Konrad Lorenz
mammals respond to the 1st to the object Lorenz imprinted young
larger, moving object they = reinforced geese. He became
see/smell/touch/hear by their ‘mother’ &
REWARDS taught them to fly.
e.g. warmth
& food
Classical ASSOCIATIVE BEHAVIOUR (not Pavlov Pavlov trained dogs
Conditioning Association between a punished or to associate a bell
natural & artificial stimulus to rewarded with food, they
bring about the same initially) responded to the
response sound of the bell
with salvation
Operant ASSOCIATIVE BEHAVIOUR REWARD/ BF Skinner studied
Conditioning Association between a PUNISHME Kinner rats, they were
particular behaviour & a NT rewarded for
reward/punishment pressing a lever
with a food pellet
