PSYC 2600H Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Stimulus Control, Reinforcement, Jerky
8 Mar 2018
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How can ncss help to explain sports rituals: some psychological/placebo effect, engaging in activities with the belief that it adds something to their performance, on midterm. Examples and extensions of the different contingent schedules. Increase in variability: emotional behaviour, aggression, resurgence, depression. Refers to both a procedure and a process: procedure: non-reinforcement of a previously reinforced response, process: the decrease (disappearance) of the response strength. Be sure that the reinforcer being withheld is in fact the reinforcer that is maintaining the behaviour. Determining the effective reinforcer that is maintaining a behaviour is a critical first step in extinguishing a behaviour. Six commonly observed patterns: extinction burst, increase in variability, emotional behaviour, aggression, resurgence, depression. Conditioned behaviour exhibited more and/or more intensively. A change in how the behaviour is carried out. Behaviours or sounds typically associated with frustration. Instrumental aggression: to get the job done (banging on the machine; may also be considered extinction burst or increase in variability)
