AP PSYCHOLOGY

LEARNING

HOW WE LEARN AND CLASSICAL CONDITIONING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The idea that intelligent creatures can learn when two events occur alongside one another is most broadly called ____ ?
A
associative learning
B
operant conditioning
C
acquisition
D
generalization
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Explanation: Associative learning is the idea that living beings of even limited intelligence can learn to associate the occurrence of one event with the occurrence of another. This may be two stimuli occurring in pairs (classical conditioning) or an action and a paired consequence (operant conditioning).

Detailed explanation-2: -Associative learning is defined as learning about the relationship between two separate stimuli, where the stimuli might range from concrete objects and events to abstract concepts, such as time, location, context, or categories.

Detailed explanation-3: -Associative Learning can be habitual conditioning or what is called Operant Conditioning, and the other one is a more controlled type of conditioning called Classical Conditioning. These two types give us a better understanding of the conditions of human behavior.

Detailed explanation-4: -This is a psychological concept. Examples of associative learning include: If someone puts their hand on a hot stove and hurts themselves, they may learn to associate hot stoves with pain, and have therefore been conditioned not to put their hands on them.

Detailed explanation-5: -associative learning, in animal behaviour, any learning process in which a new response becomes associated with a particular stimulus. In its broadest sense, the term has been used to describe virtually all learning except simple habituation (q.v.).

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