PSYC121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Operant Conditioning, Behaviorism, Observational Learning
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Operant behaviours - responses emitted without a stimulus necessarily being present. Shaping - deliberately moulding responses through reinforcement in order to achieve a desired behaviour. Token economy - a form of behaviour modification designed to increase desirable behaviour and decrease undesirable behaviour with the use of tokens. Modelling - person forms self in image of another. Beha(cid:448)iou(cid:396)is(cid:373) (cid:449)as at its peak (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) the (cid:1005)9(cid:1006)(cid:1004)"s a(cid:374)d the (cid:1005)95(cid:1004)"s. Its goal (cid:449)as to e(cid:454)plai(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:373)ple(cid:454) behaviour in terms of learning from simple behaviour. Logic: if you can control the simple behaviour, and have a theory of learning, you can predict complex behaviour. Ki(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:396) theo(cid:396)ised that if (cid:449)e get a good (cid:396)esult f(cid:396)o(cid:373) a(cid:374) a(cid:272)tio(cid:374) (cid:449)e (cid:449)ill do it agai(cid:374), it (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t get (cid:449)hat (cid:449)e (cid:449)a(cid:374)t (cid:449)e (cid:449)o(cid:374)"t (cid:396)epeat the a(cid:272)tio(cid:374). Our responses are purely created by our environment. Operant conditioning: behaviour is changed by consequences (positive or negative, manipulates environment-change behaviours, deterministic theory with no free will.
