Psychology 1 Marks Question

Any unpleasant stimulus whose removal leads to an increase in the probability that a preceding response will occur again in the future.

Learning can be defined as “any relatively permanent change in behaviour or behavioural potential produced by experience”.

A concept is a category that is used to refer to a number of objects and events. e.g. Animal, fruit, building and crowd.
In other words, concept is defined as a set of features or attributes connected by some rule, instances of a concept are those objects or events or behaviours, which have common features.

Transfer of learning can be defined as the influence of earlier learning on later learning. e.g. positive transfer enhances later learning while negative transfer interferes it.

The process of learning to respond verbally to verbal stimuli, which may include symbols, nonsense syllables and lists of words. Verbal learning is limited to human beings. e.g. Human beings observed, acquired knowledge about objects, events and their features, largely expressed in terms of words. Words then come to be associated with one another.