AP PSYCHOLOGY

LEARNING

OPERANT CONDITIONING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Learning is defined as
A
any behavior emitted by an organism without being elicited
B
A changed in the behavior of the organism
C
A relatively permanent change in the behavior that results from experience
D
Behavior based on operant rather than respondent conditioning
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Learning may be defined, for our purposes, as a relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs as a result of experience. That is, a person is said to have learned something when they consistently exhibit a new behavior over time.

Detailed explanation-2: -Learning is defined as a relatively permanent change in behaviour that occurs as a result of experience. Demonstrates some depth and breadth of understanding about operant conditioning theory. Operant conditioning refers to learning that involves rewards or punishments which comes after a behaviour.

Detailed explanation-3: -J.P. Guilford. “Learning is any change in behaviour, resulting from behaviour.” Woodworth. “Learning is the process of acquiring new knowledge and new responses."

Detailed explanation-4: - Learning can be defined as a permanent change in behaviour through education and training, practice and experience. 4 The most well known experiments on classical conditioning were conducted by Ivan Pavlov, the Russian psychologist who won the Nobel prize for his experiments on this subject.

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