In learning psychology class, we have so much fun and learned interesting knowledge. Our lecturer Madam Lihanna is a warm and caring person, with her cute gesture and communicative personality, it would be hard for us to not attend the class as her attentiveness is a sort of reinforcement for us to come to class. Madam Lihanna had given her students notes and extra reading materials for us to be prepaired, this makes the students wants to take her class Of course, sometimes the lectures could get boring but, after the lectures we usually get to do some fun activities with our group members.

   Once, Hafiz ate too much for his lunch and got sleepy and eventually slept in class, Mdm. Lihanna woke him with knocking his desk. Everybody laughed making Hafiz felt ashamed, so after that Hafiz would eat moderately so he wouldn't feel sleepy in class. Later, Ain didn't take her luch at all so a result she couldn't even concentrate in class at all. Next she have learned that she have to take her luch before coming to class.

Mali have problems in her attendance, after three times not attending the class she got a warning letter. If she is absent for another three times she would be bar from the class, so to not get the bar letter she intend to have full attendance from that moment on.

  In the class we would be given many assignments, even though it was tough but her criticism and praises made the effort worth while to do. At the end of the lesson Mdm. Lihanna would ask some question, and the person who'd answers the question can leave early. Students would concentrate in class and would compete to raise their hand so they could leave early.

The story above can be related to characteristic of positive reinforcement :

• Activity reinforcer:

               "Mdm. Lihanna would ask some question, and the person who'd answers the question can leave early. "

• Natural consequences:

               "Hafiz ate too much for his lunch and got sleepy and eventually slept in class" 

• Logical consequences:

          "she got a warning letter. If she is absent for another three times she would be bar from the class, so to not get the bar letter she intend to have full attendance from that moment on."      

• Positive feedback:

               "we would be given many assignments, even though it was tough but her criticism and praises made the effort worth while to do"

• Intrinsic reinforcer:

               "In learning psychology class, we have so much fun and learned interesting knowledge."

• Social reinforcer:

               "Our lecturer Madam Lihanna is a warm and caring person, with her cute gesture and communicative personality, it would be hard for us to not attend the class as her attentiveness is a sort of reinforcement for us to come to class."

• Material reinforcer:

              "Madam Lihanna had given her students notes and extra reading materials for us to be prepaired, this makes the students wants to take her class"

Activities In Class As Positive Reinforcer

We had a very interesting learning with Dr. Hanna on our 4^th topic which is instrumental conditioning. The instrumental conditioning currently is also well known as operant conditioning. We just know that operant conditioning is actually a kind of voluntary action rather than involuntary action which is refer to classical conditioning.  Therefore, we could easily differentiate between of the two.

            There are several subtopics under this chapter which are Thorndike’s early research and Skinner’s operant conditioning. Actually we had already learned all these subtopics in the Introduction to Psychology course. Therefore we managed to get the information easily.

For the first subtopic we learned about Thorndike’s early research that containing three components which are law of effects, law of readiness, and law of exercises. Moreover, the second subtopic is Skinner's operant conditioning. It is divided into two which are reinforcement and punishment. After detailed explanation by Dr. Hanna we can identify between reinforcement and punishment as well as the different between classical conditioning and operant conditioning. For the last 30 minutes in the class session, we had group activity to identify the element of the classical conditioning based on our previous  story, The Phenomenon of Red Riding Hood.

On Thursday, 4^th October 2012 we were given a task by Dr. Hanna since Dr. Hanna cannot attend the class due to other commitment. The task is about the differentiation between the operant and classical conditioning we were very satisfied because we can complete the task in unexpected time. We hope that the activity in class could become as a positive reinforcer for us ‘to hunt’ the knowledge and attend the class consistently. 

The Phenomenon of Red Riding Hood

Once upon a time, Red Riding Hood was on her way to her grandmother’s house in the woods. Her mother had told her earlier that to get to her grandmother’s house she had to walk pass through the wood cutter house that kept a wolf as a pet. As soon as she walked pass by the wood cutter house, she would hear the scary bark from the wolf and being chased by the wolf while listening to the sound of the wood cutter chopping the logs. The scene was repeatedly occurring every time she passes the woodcutter house. 

After a short while, Red Riding Hood had been conditioned to be scared of wolf, not only that she was also scared of anything that has similar features as the wolf such as fur, fangs and barks.  Every time she hears the sound of the wood cutter chopping the logs, she would anticipate the presence of the wolf thus; she would be scared and ran to her grandmother’s house quickly. Then, even when the sight of dogs that is similar to the feature of wolf she would be so scared and will come running to her mother. After a while, she realizes that the dog is actually different from the wolf, so she is no longer scared of the dog. 

One day Red Riding Hood was passing by, then she heard the sound of logs being cut and she was afraid but still brave enough to pass through the route, but then half way pass the route she heard the wolf scary bark and was so scared that she ran away home. Long after the incident happened, she went through the same route to visit her grandmother. Strangely there was only the sound of barking but the wolf did not appear. Day by day she passes through the route with the wolf still barking but the wolf still didn’t materialized, as a result she became immune to the barking and eventually the wolf itself. 

Came a day when Red Riding Hood was visiting her grandmother as usual but this time the barking got scarier and louder, out of the sudden the wolf materialized and chased her. Once again she was traumatized by the wolf. As Red Riding Hood was traumatized by the wolf, she was determined to visit her grandmother’s house using a different route. She was crossing the stream when she tripped over a big rock, wounded her leg badly and drops her precious necklace that was given by her late father. Out of sudden a different wolf appeared, jump into the stream to get her necklace. The wolf then came out of the stream and places her necklace in front of her, it then slowly approaches her and lick her wound. After the experience Red riding Hood was cured from her trauma of wolves. THE END.

LEARNING PSYCHOLOGY 1080 (2nd WEEK)

on the 18th Sept.  class started as usual with mdm. lihanna chooses a random male classmate to recite do'a. we've learned chapter 1 that contains about introduction to human learning. we were given task in groups, to detect whether the examples given were types of learning or not. the objective of the task was for us to get deeper understanding on learning.

on the 20th Sept, after the do'a, mdm. lihanna straight away gave us task as a group to labeled the position of neurons using one of our group mate as a model. after we had fun sticking the labels on our group mate bro.hafiz, mdm. explained the right structure of the neurons and continued the lesson with her lecture. 

thank you for reading! =3

INTRODUCTION : IIUM Relic Hunters?

Assalamualaikum W.B.T

Welcome to our Blog!
This is one of the tasks was given by Dr. Lihanna to give us deeper understanding about Psychology of Learning. As Mdm required us to meet up every week, all of us agreed that we meet up on last Sunday (23/9/2012). It was considered as last minute work and we apologize for the delay because it was due to our hectic schedules.
As we all have agreed our group name is RELIC HUNTERS
And consist of 6 members:
Bro. Hafiz
Sis. Farhana
Sis. Farihah
Sis. Malihah
Sis. Kamila
Sis. Ain
Both of sis. Kamilah and sis. Ain couldn't attend for the group discussion as they have other commitment to attend.

For the first agenda, we discussed about the introduction of the blog and also the content of the blog.
you can read the rest of the content below.

on the 11/9/2012 we have had attended the first class and for starters, mdm picked a random male classmate to recite al-Fatihah to officially begin the class. To our surprise mdm Lihanna gave us a pop-quiz about introduction to psychology, after the quiz we discuss the answers, lucky for us the marks are not included to the carry mark :) the class was continued by discussing about the course outline.

on the 13th we have had the second class. the same with the first class, mdm lihanna have picked a random male classmate to recite do'a. Then mdm. lihanna distributed paper cut outs to everyone to figure out their group members. our's was words starting with the letter "h". the group was formed and the cut outs was glued together and form a dual image of a young maiden and an old lady. we sat together and try to get to know each othe while finding the similarities we have.

Learning Study Guide

Are you preparing for a big test in your psychology of learning class? Or are you just interested in a review of learning and behavioral psychology topics? This learning study guide offers a brief overview of some of major topics including behaviorism, classical conditioning and operant conditioning. Explore the links below to get a grasp on some of the basics of learning psychology.

1. Introduction

·         What is Learning?

Learning is a relatively permanent change in behavior that is the result of experience. During the first half of the twentieth century, the school of thought known as behaviorism rose to dominate psychology and sought to explain the learning process. The three major types of learning described by behavioral psychology are classical conditioning, operant conditioning and observational learning.

·         What is Behaviorism?

Behaviorism was the school of thought in psychology that sought to measure only observable behaviors. Founded by John B. Watson and outlined in his seminal 1913 paper Psychology as the Behaviorist View It, the behaviorist standpoint held that psychology was an experimental and objective science and that internal mental processes should not be considered because they could not be directly observed and measured. Learn more in this brief overview of behaviorism.

2. Classical Conditioning

Classical conditioning is a learning process in which an association is made between a previously neutral stimulus and a stimulus that naturally evokes a response. For example, in Pavlov's classic experiment, the smell of food was the naturally occurring stimulus that was paired with the previously neutral ringing of the bell. Once an association had been made between the two, the sound of the bell alone could lead to a response.

·         Introduction to Classical Conditioning

·         Principles of Classical Conditioning

3. Operant Conditioning

Operant conditioning is a learning process in which the probability of response occurring is increased or decreased due to reinforcement or punishment. First studied by Edward Thorndike and later by B.F. Skinner, the underlying idea behind operant conditioning is that the consequences of our actions shape voluntary behavior.

·         Introduction to Operant Conditioning

·         Schedules of Reinforcement

4. Observational Learning

Observational learning is a process in which learning occurs through observing and imitating others. As demonstrated in Albert Bandura's classic "Bobo Doll" experiments, people will imitate the actions of others without direct reinforcement. Four important elements are essential for effective observational learning: attention, motor skills, motivation and memory.

·         Social Learning Theory

5. Important People

The following are some of the major figures associated with learning and the behavioral school of psychology.

·         Edward Thorndike

·         Ivan Pavlov

·         John Watson

·         B.F. Skinner

·         Albert Bandura

6. Key Learning Terms

·         Classical Conditioning

·         Unconditioned Stimulus

·         Conditioned Stimulus

·         Unconditioned Response

·         Conditioned Response

·         Fixed-interval Schedule

·         Fixed-ratio Schedule

·         Variable-interval Schedule

·         Variable-ratio Schedule

·         Behaviorism

http://psychology.about.com/od/psychologystudyguides/a/learning_sg.htm