How Do Learning Theories Explain Behavior?
11-5 Discuss learning theories and their relevance in shaping behavior.
Almost all behavior is learned.
What Is Learning?
Considerably broader than average person’s view that “it’s what you do in school.”
Occurs all the time as we continually learn from our experiences.
1 Operant conditioning—behavior is a function of its consequences
People learn to behave to get something they want or to avoid something they don’t want.
Voluntary or learned behavior, not reflexive or unlearned behavior.
Tendency to repeat learned behavior is influenced by:
Reinforcement S strengthens a behavior and increases the likelihood it will be repeated.
Lack of reinforcement S weakens a behavior and lessens the likelihood ...
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