Episode of Series “Psychology”.
Shows how learning is reinforced through stimulus-responses and extinguished when not reinforced, but rapidly reacquired when once more reinforced. Pigeons are used to demonstrate this learning process through responding through such stimuli as a hole in the wall, food, buzzer, and light. Removal of rewards makes them “forget” and return of reward reintroduces the learning almost immediately.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
322566
Language
English
Subject categories
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Learning
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Learning, Psychology o
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Psychology - Study and teaching
Educational & Instructional → Instructional
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Conditioned response
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Psychology - Study and teaching
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Reinforcement (Psychology)
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)