PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes -Operant Conditioning Chamber, Classical Conditioning, Reward System
11 Dec 2013
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Learning: the process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviours. Associative learning: learning that certain events occur together. The events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its consequences (operant conditioning) Classical conditioning and operant conditioning are both forms of associative learning. Classical conditioning forms associations between stimuli (a conditioned stimulus, and the unconditioned stimulus, it signals). It also involves respondent behaviour-actions that are automatic responses to stimulus (such as salivating in response to meat powder, and later in response to a tone). In operant conditioning, organisms associate their own actions with consequences. Actions followed by reinforcers increase; those followed by punishers often decrease. Behaviour that operates on the environment to produce rewarding or punishing stimuli is called operant behaviour. B. f. skinner behaviourist that elaborated on edward l. thorndike"s law of effect. Law of effect: behaviours followed by favourable consequences become more likely, and that behaviours followed by unfavourable consequences become less likely.
