PSYCH 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gift Card, Piece Work, List Of Poker Hand Categories
30 Jan 2017
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In instrumental conditioning, the process of acquisition by which an organism learns the contingency between a stimulus and a biologically important event. In instrumental conditioning, the process of acquisition leads to learning the contingency between a response and its consequences. In studies on the acquisition of instrumental conditioning, psychologists are often interested in measuring the rate of responding of the new behaviour. The response rate for a given behaviour can be visualized using a cumulative recorder as shown here. Essentially, a long piece of paper ows through the machine at a constant rate as a pen draws a straight line. With each response made by the subject, the pen moves up a notch leading to characteristic pattern of acquisition. Imagine you have set up an experiment where a pigeon is placed in a special cage with a keyhole. If the pigeon pecks the keyhole, a grain of seed is released.
