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Learning Skills — Concept Maps
Gujarat Board · Class 12 · Psychology
4 concept maps of Learning Skills for Gujarat Board Class 12 Psychology, each also written out as a text outline.
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4 Concept Maps
Chapter Overview: Learning Skills
The map in words
- Learning Skills
- Definition
- C T Morgan
- Permanent Change
- Experience and Practice
- Types of Behaviour
- Natural Behaviour
- Innate Responses
- No Formal Training
- Learned Behaviour
- Through Experience
- Through Observation
- Natural Behaviour
- Features of Learning
- Experience and Practice
- Change in Behaviour
- Relatively Permanent
- Types of Learning
- Emulation
- Social Learning
- Observation
- Trial and Error
- Thorndike
- Puzzle Box
- Classical Conditioning
- Pavlov
- Bell and Food
- Operant Conditioning
- Skinner
- Bar Pressing
- Insight Learning
- Kohler
- Aha Experience
- Emulation
- Key Concepts
- Reinforcement
- Positive
- Negative
- Extinction
- Generalization
- Discrimination
- Reinforcement
- Definition
Chapter Overview: Types of Learning
The map in words
- Learning Skills
- Definition
- C T Morgan
- Relatively Permanent Change
- Experience and Practice
- Change in Behaviour
- Types of Behaviour
- Natural Behaviour
- Innate
- No formal education
- Learned Behaviour
- Acquired
- Through experience
- Natural Behaviour
- Types of Learning
- Emulation
- Observation
- Imitation
- Social Learning
- Trial and Error
- Thorndike
- Puzzle Box
- Cat experiment
- Classical Conditioning
- Pavlov
- Dog experiment
- Bell and Food
- Operant Conditioning
- Skinner
- Skinner Box
- Rat and Bar
- Insight Learning
- Kohler
- Chimpanzees
- Canary Island
- Emulation
- Key Concepts
- Reinforcement
- Positive
- Negative
- Extinction
- Generalization
- Discrimination
- Reinforcement
- Definition
Correct vs Incorrect Understanding of Reinforcement Types
The map in words
- Reinforcement
- Type of Reinforcement
- Positive: Add pleasant stimulus after response
- Result: Increases probability of response
- Example: Chocolate given to child for homework
- Result: Increases probability of response
- Negative: Remove unpleasant stimulus after response
- Result: Increases probability of response
- Example: Electric shock removed when rat presses bar
- Result: Increases probability of response
- WRONG BELIEF: Negative means Punishment
- Decreases behaviour
- THIS IS INCORRECT - Punishment is separate from reinforcement
- Decreases behaviour
- Positive: Add pleasant stimulus after response
- Type of Reinforcement
Learning
The map in words
- Learning
- Definition of Learning
- Types of Behaviour
- Learning by Emulation
- Trial and Error Learning
- Classical Conditioning
- Operant Conditioning
- Insight Learning
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What are the important topics in Learning Skills for Gujarat Board Class 12 Psychology?
Key topics in Learning Skills include Nature and Definition of Learning, Learning by Emulation (Modeling and Imitation), Learning by Trial and Error — Thorndike's Experiment, Classical Conditioning — Pavlov's Experiment. Study these first, then practise questions on each for the Gujarat Board Class 12 board exam.
What do the concept maps for Learning Skills show?
The 4 maps show how the ideas in Learning Skills connect: Chapter Overview: Learning Skills; Chapter Overview: Types of Learning. Each map is also written out as an outline on this page.
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