400-word paper in which you analyze forms of simple stimulus learning. As a part of your analysis‚ you must address the following items: • Explain the concept of habituation. • Analyze the factors that affect perceptual learning. • Examine the effects of stimulus exposure. • Discuss the application of simple stimulus learning to at least two real life situations. • Your analysis should include at least three references from scholarly sources. Simple Stimulus Learning
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Simple Stimulus Learning Paper Simple Stimulus Learning Paper This paper will begin with an explanation of the concept of habituation and the role of the activity of stimulation and both non-associative and associative processes has on either long-term or short-term habituation. This paper will also analyze the factors that affect perceptual learning‚ especially that of the process of stabilizers in both memory and skills after the initial acquisition. The effects of stimulus exposure will also
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Simple Stimulus Learning Lauren N. Jones Psychology 550 February 28‚ 2011 Dr. Rachel Needle Simple Stimulus Learning “Stimulus learning is a relatively permanent change in behavior‚ or behavior repertoire which occurs as a result of experience” (Terry‚ 2009). Since there is no possible way to observe knowledge itself‚ behaviors are our only source of observing what has taken place concerning learning. Learning is an inclusion of the potential for change in behavior. This change in behavior
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Simple Stimulus Learning In the following analysis of various forms of simple stimulus learning‚ the concept of habituation‚ including many examples will be studied and explained. Three factors that affect perceptual learning will be analyzed. Those factors include presenting contrasting stimuli‚ transfer from easy to difficult stimuli‚ and attention and feedback. The following effects of stimulus exposure will be examined: Preference for familiar stimuli‚ priming facilitation‚ and potentiated
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Simple Stimulus Learning Simple Stimulus Learning Throughout time learning has been described as the gaining of information. When one learns‚ they are responding to stimuli that have triggered their ability to acknowledge what is going on around them. An operational definition of stimulus can be something or someone that initiated or has been viewed as starting a response. In other words “much of our behavior consists of learned responses to simple signals” (Northern College‚ 2003). There
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Simple Stimulus Learning Introduction According to Terry (2006) “stimulus learning is a relatively permanent change in behavior‚ or behavior repertoire which occurs as a result of experience.” Since knowledge itself‚ in the mind or in the brain‚ is not straight discernible‚ behavior transforms are required to present objective facts that have taken place. Learning includes the potential for a change in behavior‚ to be demonstrated when conditions prompt the display of this new knowledge
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Simple Stimulus “Habituation is a decrease in response to a stimulus after repeated presentations” (Cherry‚ 2013). For example‚ the sound of a telephone ringing may initially draw your attention‚ but as a person becomes more accustomed to the sound he or she pays less attention to the noise and the initial response becomes less. The diminished response is habituation. When I was younger I used to work in a customer service‚ call center setting. I got used to the phones ringing day in and day out
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I. Summary The stimulus package was created by President Obama and his administration to help the recovery of America’s recession. The stimulus package was designed to give tax payers extra money that they will spend on the economy lifting America out of the recession. However‚ instead of using the stimulus package‚ the money could’ve been saved and still achieve the same effect as the stimulus package. Saving money will “have precisely the same impact on national income as spending.”This is
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The Fiscal Stimulus‚ Flawed but Valuable But I’m also an empirical economist who’s spent a career trying to estimate the effects of monetary and fiscal policy. So let me put on my empiricist’s hat and evaluate what we know about the legislation’s effects. After listening to Representative Paul Ryan in the vice-presidential debate‚ you might think that careful evaluation isn’t needed. In his view‚ we spent $800 billion on the stimulus‚ yet unemployment still rose to 10 percent — so obviously it
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countries‚ made a commitment to provide timely stimulus to domestic demand while maintaining a sustainable medium-term fiscal strategy (Swan & Tanner‚ Updated Economic and Fiscal Outlook‚ 2009‚ p. 35). In December 2008 the government introduced a $10.4 billion stimulus package; the Economic Security Strategy‚ and in February 2009 the $42 billion National Building and Jobs plan was introduced (see Appendix A for details of the Stimulus). The aim of both stimulus packages was to stimulate the economy as
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