PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Foodborne Illness, Reinforcement
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Can be learned in a single trial. If you get food poisoning, you will avoid that food -- same with certain types of alcohol. Conditioned response takes longer to come to affect when it comes to association with food. Sometimes people in chemotherapy have taste aversions getting sick with the food they eat before therapy. People are more likely to ascribe sickness to unfamiliar things. Classical conditioning reactive behaviors (salivation, fear, anxiety) An operant behavior is one that has some impact on the environment. A type of learning in which the consequences of an organism"s behavior determines whether it will be repeated in the future. Consequences of voluntary behavior affect behaviors in the future. Behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely. Behaviors followed by negative consequences become less likely. Positive reinforcement (lever press delivers food) Positive punishment (lever press delivers shock) Negative reinforcement (lever press turns off shock) Negative punishment (lever press removes food)
