User:Mdnack/sandbox

3/9/19

I added the peer edits to the actual wikipedia article, and it already consisted of 3-5 links to other Wikipedia articles.

I added a link to latent learning from the mental mapping wikipedia article and the

Response to Peer comments:


 * 1) Hi ScarlettRidley!! Thank you for your peer Edit. I will add information to the introduction so it is not too condensed for beginning psychology readers and general population.

Let me know what you think!

COPY AND PASTING THE INTRO IN ORDER TO EDIT IT HERE: (bolded was already there from last time I wrote the intro, regular text is me adding this round)

Latent learning is retaining information, and changing behavior due to that information when there is sufficient motivation, without having ever reinforced that information. Latent learning is a form of observational learning, which is when the observation of something, rather than experiencing something directly, can effect later behavior.

Observational learning can be many things. Perhaps a human observes a behavior, and later repeats that behavior at another time (not direct imitation) even though no one is rewarding them to do that behavior. In the social learning theory, humans observe others receiving rewards or punishments happening to others, which invokes feelings in the observer and motivate them to change their behavior.

In latent learning particularly, there is no observation of a reward or punishment. Latent learning is simply animals observing their surroundings with no particular motivation to learn the geography of it, but then at a later date able to exploit this knowledge when there is motivation to find something.

In latent learning, because there is no reward or punishment observed, this means that cognition is involved rather than the mesolimbic pathway.

The lack of reinforcement, associations, or motivation with a stimulus is what differentiates this type of learning from the other learning theories.

2. Hi Cjboley!! Thank you for your peer edit. I have considered adding a Latent Learning vs Operant Conditioning section.

I have decided to add this as a subsection of an overall "difference between Latent Learning vs Other Learning Theories" so that other people can continue to expand upon this subject (and I can later this month!)

Latent Learning vs Classical Conditioning
Classical conditioning is when an animal eventually subconsciously anticipates a biological stimulus such as food when they experience a seemingly random stimulus, due to a repeated experience of their association. One significant example of classical conditioning is Ivan Pavlov's experiment in which dogs showed a conditioned response to a bell the experimenters had purposely tried to associate with feeding time. After the dogs had been conditioned, the dogs no longer only salivated for the food, which was a biological need and therefore an unconditioned stimulus. The dogs began to salivate at the sound of a bell, the bell being a conditioned stimulus and the salivating now being a conditioned response to it. They salivated at the sound of a bell because they were anticipating food.

Latent learning is when an animal learns something even though it has no motivation or stimulus associating a reward with learning it. Animals are therefore able to simply be exposed to information for the sake of information and it will come to their One significant example of latent learning is rats subconsciously creating mental maps and using that information to be able to find a biological stimulus such as food faster later on when there is a reward. These rats due to already knowing the maze of the map, though there was no motivation to learn the maze before the food was introduced.

Latent Learning vs Operant Conditioning
Operant Conditioning is the ability to tailor an animals behavior using rewards and punishments. Latent Learning is tailoring an animals behavior by giving them an time to create a mental map before a stimulus is introduced.

Latent Learning vs Social Learning Theory
Social learning theory suggests that behaviors can be learned through observation, but actively cognizant observation. In this theory, observation leads to a change in behavior more often when rewards or punishments associated with specific behaviors are observed. Latent learning theory is similar in the observation aspect, but again it is different due to the lack of reinforcement needed for learning.

some of these references are from another part of this sandbox not my new edits! Just the first one is from this section. Most of my information came from other wiki articles and from knowing that was true due to previous classroom information. I cannot edit it for some reason. Also, does it need more references? Do I use the ones from those other wiki articles?

Thank you all for your input!!

2/4/19
First actual change in the Latent Learning wiki article: Completely updated the introduction, because turns out it was complete plagiarism!! just copied and pasted from psychology text books. Seriously! Old intro:

"Latent learning is a form of learning that is not immediately expressed in an overt response; it occurs without any obvious reinforcement of the behavior or associations that are learned.Interest in latent learning arose largely because the phenomenon seemed to conflict with the widely held view that reinforcement was necessary for learning to occur."

you can copy and paste that into google and tons of books come up, word for word, including the ones I just used to cite that and that are now in the wikipedia article.

New Intro:

"Latent learning is a form of learning that conflicted with the popularly held view that all learning requires some form of reinforcement. The lack of reinforcement or associations with a stimulus is in fact what differentiates this type of learning from operant conditioning or classical conditioning.  An example of latent learning is observational learning - this occurs when a behavior is observed and repeated without reward. This observed response implicates cognition rather than the mesolimbic pathway. "

I know I am bad with run on sentences - please let me know if this actually makes sense!!

'''I have played around with some possible edits above. Discard if you don't like them - but use anything you do like! I was trying to rearrange some ideas and shorten the statements. Since you had already edited the article I figured you would be able to take it back to the original if you preferred that.'''

(also it didn't copy the sources but they're on the wiki page!!) - Understood; I'll look there.

Thank you for your time!