PSYC104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Slot Machine, Social Facilitation, Habituation

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC104
• Professor: Colin Wastell

Document Summary

Operant conditioning learning that occurs from possible consequences of our actions. Learning of a new association between behaviour and its consequences. It is learning through reinforcement and punishment: behaviour (response) is voluntary, behaviour is modified according to its consequences. Oc food is deli(cid:448)e(cid:396)ed i(cid:374)depe(cid:374)de(cid:374)tly of (cid:396)at(cid:859)s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iou(cid:396) Cc (cid:396)at(cid:859)s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iou(cid:396) (cid:272)auses food to appea(cid:396) E. l. thorndike law of effect: behaviour that results in reward will be more likely in the future, behaviour that results in punishment will be less likely in the future, behaviour is controlled by its consequences. Reinforcement contingencies: contingencies reflect conditions that must be met in order for reinforcement to be dispensed, the reinforcement must be meaningful to the organism, the reinforcement must follow the behaviour. Consequence an event caused by a behaviour: positive contingency the presentation of a stimulus, negative contingency the removal of a stimulus that is already present. Stimulus types: pleasant appetitive, unpleasant aversive, neutral.