BEHL 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Reinforcement, Operant Conditioning, Habituation

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19 Jun 2018
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Simple Learning: Habituation
Occurs when a stimulus is presented/encountered repeatedly, and the response to it weakens
Associative Learning
-Classical (or Pavlovian) conditioning
-Operant (or instrumental) conditioning
Unconditioned= Automatic
Conditioned= Learned
Pavolv's Dog Experiment
Before conditioning: Food= Salivation Buzzer= no salivation
During conditioning: Food +buzzer= salivation
After conditioning: Buzzer= salivation
Basic Processes in Classical Conditioning
ď‚·Reinforcement- pairing of neutral stim and conditioned stim
ď‚·Acquisition- initial stage of learning
ď‚·Extinction- only neutral stim (no conditioned stim)
ď‚·Spontaneous recovery- response comes back after a period of time
ď‚·Generalisation- similar stim triggers same response
ď‚·Discrimination- exact stim triggers response exclusively
ď‚·High-order conditioning- other small things affect response (??)
Principles of operant conditioning
ď‚·three terms of contingency
ď‚·reinforcement/ punishment
ď‚·Positive= add (positive punishment--> add punishment)
ď‚·Negative=take (negative reinforcement--> take nice thing away)
ď‚·operant conditioning
ď‚·Schedules of reinforcement
Fixed-ratio (FR30) (eg. Rat presses bar 29 times and gets nothing.
Presses 30 times and receives reward)
Variable-ratio (VR30) (eg. Rat presses bar 29 times and gets
nothing. Presses 30 times and receives reward)
Fixed-interval (FI 1min)
Variable-interval (VI 1min)
ď‚·VR on average is 30
ď‚·(see schedules of reinforcement graph)
ď‚·In the real world
Shaping via successive approximations
ď‚·Specify goal/desired behaviour
ď‚·Identify a response to use as a starting point
ď‚·Reinforce starting response, then require successively closer
approximations, until the desired response eventually occurs
Behaviour modification- central principle is:
ď‚·Behaviour that is positively reinforced is likely to be
repeated
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