Stimulus And Response Learning
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Stimulus and response learning. Harlow argued that stimulus response s r learning and insight learning are based along a continuum where stimulus response learning dominates early on and cognitive or insight learning appears later harlow 1949. He believed that all learning depended on the strength of the relationship between the stimulus and the response. Stimulus response learning is the ability of an organism to learn to perform a certain behavior in the presence of a stimulus.
A set comprises a general rule or skill applicable to a whole class of problems and demonstrates the transfer of learning in that. Thorndike was one of the first psychologists to explain the stimulus response theory of learning. They are based on the assumption that human behaviour is learned.
The law of effect the law of exercise and the law of readiness. One of the early contributors to the field american psychologist edward l. In developing this theory thorndike proposed three laws.
He argued for a learning set or a way of learning to learn. Stimulus response s r theories are central to the principles of conditioning. This is a process that occurs somewhere between s r and insight learning.
A theory that proposes that all learning consists primarily of the strengthening of the relationship between the stimulus and the response.