PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Reinforcement, Operant Conditioning

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

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Classical conditioning and oparent conditioning are both forms of associative learning: Oparent conditioning: organisms associate their own actions with consequences. Actions followed bt reinforces increase; those followed by punishers often decrease. Behavior that operates on the environment to produce rewarding or punishing stimuli called behavior. (cid:1006)(cid:1005). (cid:1005) ski(cid:374)(cid:374)er"s experi(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts. B. f. skinner work elaborated on what psychologists edward l. thorndike called the law of effect. Law effect: rewarded behavior is likely to recur. Using thorndike"s la(cid:449) of effect as a starting point, skinner developed behavior control. These principles also enabled him to teach pigeons such unpigeon-like behavior. For his pioneer studies, skinner designed an oparent chamber (skinner box) In the box there was a lever that an animal presses or a key. The reward for pressing the lever was food and water. The de(cid:448)ice acts out skinner"s concept of reinforcement. Reinforcement: any event that strengthens (increases the frequency of) a preceding response.