February 27 2013 Instinctive Drift Biological Constraint Model Latent Learning Social Learning Theory SLT Breland Breland 1961 Learned behavior that shifts toward instinctive behavior Some behaviors are inherently more likely to be learned than others Learning that occurs in the absence of reinforcement and is not demonstrated until later when reinforcement occurs Bandura 1986 Learning takes place both by doing enactive learning and by watching the behaviors of others observational learning SLT is concerned with learning that occurs when we model or imitate the behavior of others Bobo Doll experiment Bandura Social learning also works through watching the consequences of another person s actions beer commercials having fun Interaction of nature and nurture Behaviorism as presented by Watson and Skinner was a nurture only point of view Today we know that there is a constant interaction between the brain and the environment Four processes illustrating this concept 2 1 is fundamental to the way in which humans and other primates learn Imprinting the rapid and innate learning of characteristics of a caregiver soon after birth Lorenz s studies in ethology Evidence of a sensibility period for the learning of specific behaviors Imitation related to mirror neurons grow more neural connections run mazes faster than identical rats in impoverished environments Rats reared in enriched or normal environments 3 Synaptic change 4 Brain Growth with enrichment our brain grows and we age
View Full Document
Unlocking...