Introduction to Learning

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Introduction to Learning

• Lecture 1

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Psychology

• Scientific study of behavior and cognitive
  processes
• Behavior
• Text What you do
• any event that can be objectively measured
• Cognitive processes
• mental processes that control behavior

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Behavior

• Adaptive Behavior
• Helps us to survive in changing environment
• Origins of behavior
• Inherited
• genes
• Learned
• experience

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Surviving in an Uncertain World

• Detect changes in environment
• Integrate important information
• Respond adaptively

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Generic Definitions

• A more or less permanent change in behavior
  resulting from personal experiences with the
  environment
• A relatively permanent change in
• the ability to exhibit a behavior
• as a result of experience
• Can be an increase or decrease in behavior

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Excluded Changes in Behavior

• Reflexes
• Temporary changes in physiological state
• Maturation

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Learning What its not

• Correctness of response
• Deliberate attempt to remember
• Limited to observable responses

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Learning vs. Performance

• Performance Organisms activities at particular
  time
• Determinants of performance
• learning
• motivation
• physical abilities
• sensory abilities
• opportunity

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Learning vs. Performance

• Learning ? ability to exhibit behavior
• Inferred by performance

unsuccessful performance
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Learning

• Usually adaptive
• It benefits the individual

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Learning

• Can be maladaptive
• Harmful to individual

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Terminology

• Adaptive/Maladaptive
• Stimulus
• Response
• Overt/covert