PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: Traffic Ticket, Noxious Stimulus, Tantrum

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Jeffrey Yen

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But the difference between classical conditioning and operant conditioning are straightforward: classical conditioning: Forms associations between two stimuli (a conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus) Involves respondent behavior actions that are automatic responses to a stimulus (such as salivating in response to meat powder and later in response to a tone: operant conditioning: Organisms associate their own actions with consequences. Actions followed by reinforces increase; actions followed by punishments often decrease. Operant behavior - behavior that operates on the environment to produce rewarding or punishing stimuli. Retrieval practice: with _________ conditioning, we learn associations between events we do not control. With ________ conditioning, we learn associations between our behavior and resulting events. Modern behaviorism"s most influential and controversial figure. The law of effect thorndike"s principle that behaviors followed by favorable consequences become more likely, and that behaviors followed by unfavorable consequences become less likely. His work elaborated on what psychologist edward l. thorndike called the law of effect.