This document provides an overview of key concepts in learning psychology, including:
- Learning is defined as a relatively permanent change in behavior, knowledge, or skills from experience.
- Behaviorism views learning as changes in observable behavior from environmental stimuli and consequences, while cognitivism sees learning involving internal mental processes.
- Thorndike's law of effect states that responses followed by satisfaction are more likely to be repeated, while unsatisfying responses weaken connections.
- Operant conditioning uses reinforcement and punishment to modify voluntary behaviors by associating them with consequences.
- Behaviorism focuses on observable changes in behavior from the environment, not internal mental processes. Cognitivism sees knowledge organized