PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 44: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Marian Breland Bailey, Token Economy

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens C Pruessner

Document Summary

Classical conditioning is passive, the person just associates things. Many of our actions are instrumental, done for a purpose. We learn that certain behaviours lead to certain outcomes, and those outcomes will determine if we will do the behaviour again, this process is called instrumental or operant conditioning. The law of effect was determined, which states that any behaviour leading do a satisfying state of affairs"" will more likely occur again, while any behaviour leading to an annoying state of affairs will less likely occur again. Secondary reinforcers: those that do not satisfy biological needs and are established through classical conditioning. Premack: a reinforcer"s value could be determined by the amount of time an organism engages in a specific associated behaviour when free to do anything. Premack principle: a more valued activity can be used to reinforce the performance of a less valued activity.