PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Slot Machine, Table Tennis, Reinforcement
28 Oct 2018
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Explicit training between voluntary behaviours and their consequences. The learning of a contingency between a behaviour and a consequence. A cat was placed in a puzzle box. The box would open by pulling the rope. At first cat would engage in random behaviour. After the cat learns the trick , the cat would pull the string immediately. Cats learn from trial and error rather than conscious learning of escape behaviour. Graph indicates a decreasing number of behaviours in relation the number of increasing successful trials. Favourable behaviours are "stamped in", unfavourable behaviours are "stamped out" Cat pulls on rope and it is stamped in. Then the cat tries turning in a circle and it doesn"t work so it is stamped out. Then itll try something out and it is stamped out. Eventually this general process leads to refinement and the cat learns the contingency between specific behaviour of rope pulling and the specific consequence of food reward.
