cognitive learning

• cognitive learning: learning by listening, wawtching, touching, reading, experiencing, then processing/remembering info
• cognitive map: term for a mental representation fo the layout of a familiar environment
• latent learning: occurs in the absence of reinforcement, not demonstrated until a reinforcer is available
• insight: ability to view problem as a whole - :lightbulb"

  • kohler's chimps: sudden problem solving, crate stacking
• learned helplessness: exposure to inescapable, uncontrollable aversive events = passive behavior
• edward tolman (latent learning) had rats run mazes and found that rats who had incentive to explore the same had the same maze running time as rats without incentive