Questions (Kim Woods) Only

Read the following chapters in your text:

· Chapter 7: ‘Learning”

· Chapter 8: “Memory”

In this unit’s reading, you will consider the behaviorist perspective on the process of learning. By understanding classical and operating conditioning, as well as observational learning, you will better understand many systems in place in the world around you. You know you have learned information when you can remember it. Memory involves important cognitive processes which can be very helpful to people, but can also occasionally create inaccuracies. By better understanding memory, you can learn ways to strengthen yours, while also being on the look-out for memory mistakes.

should be at least 200–250 words in length and should extend the discussion of the group supported by your course materials and/or other appropriate resources.

In this unit, you are examining how people learn information, as well as how they remember it. Behaviorism is a school of thought in psychology that attempts to explain learning through different types of associations and conditioning. Think about how this type of learning occurs in your own life, as well as your own memory processes.

· Choose one of the forms of learning that you read about in your text: classical conditioning, operant conditioning, or observational learning. Give a specific example of how this form of learning goes on in your life or the life of someone you know.

· Explain how this example relates to this style of learning, with regards to associations (classical conditioning), shaping (operant conditioning), or reasons for social imitation (observational learning).

· Describe what type of memory process you think may have occurred here and why. (For example, implicit, explicit, effortful processing, or automatic processing are types of memory processes.)

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The book that I will be using is this below

Exploring PSYCHOLOGY

NINTH EDITION

David G. Myers

Hope College

Holland, Michigan

Special Contributor

C. Nathan DeWall, University of Kentucky