PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Classical Conditioning, Reinforcement
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Instrumental training: involves explicit training between voluntary behaviors and their consequences, the learning of a contingency between behavior and consequence. Thorndike experiment: cat in a puzzle box, pull lever get food. Law of effect: behaviors with positive consequences are stamped in. Reinforcer: which is any stimulus, which, when presented after a response leads to change in the rate of that response. Presenting a positive reinforcer or removal of a negative reinforcer. And presentation of a negative reinforcer, and removal of a positive reinforcer. Reward training: presentation of a positive reinforcer following a response, which increase the frequency of behavior. Punishment training: presentation of negative reinforcer following a response, which leads to a decrease in the behavior being reinforced. Omission training: involves removing a positive reinforcer and it leads to a decrease in the behavior being reinforced. Escape training: occurs when a response is followed by the removal of a negative reinforcer.
