PSYC1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Edward Thorndike, B. F. Skinner, Animal Cognition

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC1002
• Professor: Caleb Owens

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Lecture 3- i(cid:374)stru(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal lear(cid:374)i(cid:374)g: what is the law effect, difference between classical and instrumental, components of sinners tripartite contingency, what is shaping, difference between positive, negative reinforcement and punishment, what is partial reinforcement. Interest in animal intelligence: eulogy of animals. Law of effect: what a human or animal does is strongly influenced by the intermediate consequences of such behaviour in the past. B. f skinner: a limitation with thorndike"s method was discrete trial: Instrumental learning: the subject has to respond to change the circumstances, this is different from pavlov: the subject has no control over events but responds to them. Tripartite contingency: antecedent: stimulus controlling the behaviour: discriminative stimuli, behaviour: what is response being reinforced: the operant, consequence: what is the intermediate outcome of behaviour: reinforcing stimulus. Intermediate (high contiguity), the faster the reinforce is given after the response, the better, contiguity= closer in time: contingent, given if response is made, withheld if response is not made, valuable.