Discrimination learning

Operant conditioning involves the modification of a behavior by means of reinforcement or punishment.

Classical conditioning involves learning through association when two stimuli are paired together repeatedly.

Research on the basic principles underlying this learning style has their roots in neuropsychology sub-processes.

Lashey's research on two-alternative forced choice gave a foundation of study to psychologists like Kenneth Spence.

[2] A book written on discrimination learning studied the behaviors and discriminatory habits of animals.

Animals can use discrimination learning to help them survive, be trained for assisting humans in tasks, and much more.

This effect states that organisms learn to give more attention to the stimuli that are of more importance to them.

Examples of discrimination learning in everyday life can include grocery shopping, determining how to decipher between the types of bread or fruit, being able to tell similar stimuli apart, differentiating between different parts while listening to music, or perhaps deciphering the different notes and chords being played.

This change partly reflects the increasing diversity of studies of discrimination, and partly the general expansion of the topic of cognition within psychology, so that learning is not now the central organizing topic that it was in the mid-20th century.