PSYC 2P45 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Belongingness, Walden Two, Cognitive Dissonance
20 Oct 2016
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Grounded: applying psychology to everyday life, founder of behaviourism as we know it. Puzzle boxes: trial and error, put animals in these boxes. Wanted to see how intelligent they were (to get out of the box; by a lever ect. ) Law of effect: founded by thorndike, stimulus response satisfying event. Relationship with be strengthened: unsatisfying after response. Weakened: skinner thought this was too mentalistic. Discrete-trial procedures (one chance to do something; puzzle box: running speed. Time after you put the rat in the maze before it starts to run (leave the box: types of mazes. Free-operant procedures: pressing a lever, measures instrumental condition. Operant response behaviour operating on the environment. Before you can observe operant behaviour, you need to do some training. Magazine training pairing a sound with the delivery of food. Shaping: reinforcement of successive approximations to the final behavior, non-reinforcement of earlier response forms. Observing changes in the likelihood of behaviour.
