Psychology Learning Concepts

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Learning

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The process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviors.

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Associative Learning

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Learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli or a response and its consequences.

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Stimulus

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Any event or situation that evokes a response.

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Respondent Behavior

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Behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus.

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Operant Behavior

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Behavior that operates on the environment, producing consequences.

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Cognitive Learning

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The acquisition of mental information, whether by observing events, by watching others, or through language.

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Ivan Pavlov

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A Russian physiologist known primarily for his work in classical conditioning.

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Classical Conditioning

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A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events.

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John B. Watson

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An American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism.

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Behaviorism

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The theory that human and animal behavior can be explained in terms of conditioning, without appeal to thoughts or feelings.