8.3 Learning!

• Biologie
• 8th Grade

8.3 Learning!

TB page 210

Behaviour

Stimulus

Response

Motivating factor

Ways of learning

1. IMPRINTING

Type of learning that happens in a short time window after birth

Imprinting needs a 

Critical period

The short time window after birth when imprinting is possible

Ways of learning:

2. Imitation

Learning by copying somebody else's behaviour

What have YOU 

learned by imitation?

Type on the next slide...!

What have YOU
learned by imitation?
(short answers!)

Ways of learning:

3. Conditioning

Learning by making connections

Classical conditioning

Learning by connecting...

What does the stimulus

"GREEN"

mean to you?

Let's make a CONNECTION

"GREEN" <---> "FLINCHING"

How can you make

someone flinch

whenever they hear the word

"GREEN"??

Be prepared to share!

How can you make

someone flinch

whenever they hear the word

"GREEN"??

Video...

Watch the following video

Video...

Explain what the girl has learned.

Describe how the girl has learned it.

Classical conditioning

Learning by turning a 

NEUTRAL stimulus into a MEANINGFUL stimulus,

which causes a specific behaviour

Review assignment

Explain the following behaviour in terms of keywords

(stimulus 1)

...............................

    (stimulus 2)

..................................

      Behaviour

      (response)

...................................

Explain the following behaviour in terms of keywords

(stimulus 1)

...............................

    (stimulus 2)

..................................

      Behaviour

      (response)

...................................

01:06

Summarize the steps Pavlov followed in his experiment

01:34

What is meant by 'unconditioned'?

1. Learned
2. Not learned, natural

01:52

Which one is true?

1. A neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus
2. An unconditioned stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus

Operant conditioning

desirable behaviour is learned by means of using reward and punishment

Classical Conditioning?

Operant conditioning?

Explain the following behaviour in terms of keywords

Explain the following behaviour in terms of keywords

00:33

To the bird, what is the stimulus for his turning behaviour?

00:51

What is the name for the type of learning that involves a reward?

01:05

To the bird, what is the stimulus for pecking at the red disc?

02:07

Is the bird always immediately rewarded when it pecks the red disc?

1. Yes
2. No