PSYC 2P45 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: B. F. Skinner, Reinforcement, Sunscreen
21 Oct 2016
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What you encounter it is going to result in your behvaiour. Your behavior is an instrument to get what you want. If you want something to happen you got to make it happen. Want to see how intelligent they were. The food was outside the box and the animals had to figure out how to get out of the box to get the food. When he found that animals use trial and error. Stimulus response relationships: law of effect. If there is a stimulus present and your response to that stimulus that is followed by a satisfied event, then the association between the stimulus and the response strengthens. Unsatisfied event/ annoying; the association between the stimulus and the response weaken. A little bit similar to skinner"s theory; the mechanism however is a little bit different. Discrete-trial procedures: you decide when to put the rat in and out, running speed.
