Behavioral Social Cognitive Views of Learning
Postgraduate Diploma in Early Childhood Education Term / Year Course Code
Course Title : : : 2012 Autumn CECE 7103 Understanding How Children Learn Dr.
Sam Cheung (Tel: 3411 4342; Email:
[email protected]) Ms. Paulina Yuen
(Tel: 3411 1952; Email:
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Lecture 2: Behavioral Social Cognitive Views of Learning Lecture Highlights: п‚§
п‚§ п‚§ п‚§ п‚§ Definitions of Behavioral Learning Theory Classical Conditioning
Pavlov Operant Conditioning Skinner Trial and error Learning / The Law of Effect
Thorndike Social Learning Theory Bandura I. п‚Ё Behavioral Learning Theories:
Explanations of learning that focus on external events as the cause of changes in
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Repeat this process for many times. Bell ringing (NS) + Food (US) п‚® Dog
salivates (UR) After Conditioning: п‚Ё After repeating the process for many times,
when the dog hears the bell ring, it will automatically salivate without seeing its
food. п‚Ё Pavlov s experiments showed that if a previously neutral stimulus is
paired with an unconditioned stimulus for many times, the neutral stimulus
becomes a conditioned stimulus (CS) and be able to produce a response similar to
that produced by the unconditioned stimulus. п‚Ё At the end of the experiment,
the bell ringing becomes the conditioned stimulus (CS) and producing saliva
becomes the conditioned response (CR). п‚Ё Bell ringing (CS) п‚® Dog salivates
(CR) CECE7103/L2/2012Au 3 e) Other Situations in Classical Conditioning:
Generalization п‚Ё It involves the tendency of a new stimulus similar to the
original conditioned stimulus to produce a similar response. For example, the
sound of a whistle; the more bell like the noise, the stronger the dog s response.
п‚Ё School example: A student is criticized for his poor performance on a biology
test. When he begins to prepare for a chemistry test, he becomes so nervous because
these two subjects are closely related in the science subjects. Thus, the student s
anxiety generalizes from taking a test in biology to taking a