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Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper describing an informal learning experience you have had. You may describe, for example, how you became afraid of heights, why a particular food or smell moves you emotionally, or why you dislike elevators. The experience must be concrete and can be singular or an experience that occurred over a longer period.
Describe the experience by applying learning theories from this week's readings to the steps involved. Include the following:
- Identify what you learned from the experience.
- Describe how your learning could have occurred through classical conditioning. Identify the unconditioned stimulus, the unconditioned response, the conditioned stimulus, and the conditioned response.
- Explain how your learning could have occurred through operant conditioning. Describe the behavior, consequence, and reinforcement. Indicate the schedule of reinforcement, if applicable.
- Address how your learning could have occurred through cognitive-social learning.
- Conclude by comparing classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and cognitive-social learning.
Include at least two references from the University Library.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
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ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING IN A REAL LIFE SITUATION
Associative Learning:
An informal associative learning experience.
Juwane Brown
Phoenix University
ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING IN A REAL LIFE SITUATION
ABSTRACT
This paper aims to apply the various models of theories of associative learning to a practical real
life experience by describing each of the steps involved in the learning process using the
particular models. The models explored are: classical conditioning, operant conditioning and
cognitive social learning (observational learning).
Key words: associative learning, classical conditioning, operant conditioning, cognitive social
learning.
ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING IN A REAL LIFE SITUATION
Introduction
Associative learning occurs when an individual acquires new skills, behavior, a new habit or
taste by making a connection between stimuli or events that occur together within the
individual’s environment. The study of associative learning can be classified into three basic
forms of learning: Classical (Pavlovian) conditioning, operant conditioning and cognitive social
learning.
In classical conditioning, the individual learns to associate events that repeatedly happen together
so that a reflexive response is mapped to a different stimulus by training an association between
the two stimuli. The classical conditioning process involves a set of stimuli and responses. The
stimuli involved are: an...
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