Informal_Learning_experience.docx Informal Learning Experience: Claustrophobia PSY 103 43857 Introduction Experiences in our life shape who we are and how we behave. These experiences can come in the form of for
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Informal_Learning_experience.docx Informal Learning Experience: Claustrophobia PSY 103 43857 Introduction Experiences in our life shape who we are and how we behave. These experiences can come in the form of formal learning or informal learning. Formal learning is an education that is structured and contains a goal or purpose for the learner. An example of a formal learning would be the course, Introduction to Psychology. The course syllabus states the student™s learning outcome per week and what supplemental work are required from the learner per week as well. Informal learning is a type of education or knowledge that a person gains through life experiences. These informal learning experiences play a major part in a person™s behavior because it allows people to realize their fears, what they like, what they excel or do not excel at, and practically anything that relates to a person™s individual characteristics. I personally developed many phobias throughout my life. Phobias such as entomophobia, claustrophobia, acrophobia, and nyctophobia. The phobia that I am going to be discussing would be my personal experience with claustrophobia, fear of confined spaces. This includes how I adopted this phobia through classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational learning. Throughout our everyday lives we experience many stimuli and overtime we relate these stimuli to an event which in turn causes us to behave in a way. Phobias can alter the way we behave and live our lives and there is a r. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .
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