PSYCH 1F03 Lecture 4: 4
2 Apr 2018
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Instrumental conditioning: explicit training between voluntary behaviours and their consequences, the learning of a contingency between behaviour and consequence, classical involuntary; operant voluntary. Ex: touching a hot stove = burnt hand. Types of instrumental conditioning: presenting/removing a positive reinforcer; presenting/removing a negative reinforcer. Reward training: presentation of a positive reinforcer; increases the frequency of a behaviour, presentation of a positive reinforcer reward. Punishment training: presentation of a negative reinforcer; decreases the frequency of a behaviour. ", presentation of negative reinforcer punishment, authority figure may become a trigger for distress/pain. Escape training: removal of a negative reinforcer; increase in the response behaviour / encourage a behaviour. Acquisition and shaping: acquisition leads to learning the contingency between a response and its consequence, rate of responding to the new behaviour. Animal trainers/dolphins: successive approximation to train someone to partake in a complex task. Generalization and discrimination: contingencies are not always valid. The grandparents" house is the s-delta or (s-).
