PSYCH 1NN3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Slot Machine, France 3, Reinforcement

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1NN3
• Professor: Ellen Mac Lellan

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Learning the contingency between behaviours and consequence. Studied cats in puzzle boxes, and put the focus on avert behaviour rather than on mental elements or conscious experiment. Eg. cats were placed in box with a rope (if they pulled the rope they would get out). Rope pulling because it was followed by a favourable consequence of food. Any stimulus, which, when presented after a response, leads to a change in rate of. Presentation of a positive reinforcer, following a response, which increases the. Eg. presenting puppy with bone every time they sit on command, the behaviour will most frequency of a behaviour likely increase. Punishment decrease in the behaviour being reinforced behaviour. Response followed by the presentation of a negative reinforcer, which leads to a. This is controversial as pain or fear may be associated with it. Time out procedure removing a positive reinforcer and it leads to decrease in.