Can anyone tell me anything about selectivity in associative learning?
Associative Learning Associative learning takes place whenever an animal learns to associate an external event with a change in its own internal state, or a change in its behavior. In addition, an animal can also learn to associate an act that it performs with some kind of reward. The first form of learning is classical conditioning, the second form of learning is operant or instrument conditioning. A chicken with a bird feeder that comes on at night, may happen to create a shadow on the sensor that turns on the feeder in daylight. That chicken may then learn to place its head or body in a position to repeat that shadow when it is hungry and feed all the time when it is hungry. Yes, the horrible, and deadly myth of permanence in ability is killing many students and adults. We need desperately to remove this false and deadly myth of fixed intelligences and abilities and replace it with tools to continually improve and change our lives. Please Please read learning theory and Grand Hope,
