PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Vending Machine, Puzzle Box, Stimulus Control
28 Oct 2018
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Learning about the contingency between a voluntary response and its consequence. By giving a rat food on the right it will immediately turn right. It is voluntary for the rat to turn right. Athletes, learn to hit baseball because audience cheers for him when he hits a home run. Put a cat in a box with a lever. Instrumental conditioning is learning between voluntary behaviour and its consequence. E. g baby wants cuddles to sleep at home s-delta. E. g baby wants cuddles and will get them sd. Training yourself to study is just a matter of applying instrumental conditioning. Sd lamp when on it is study zone. Eg speeding ticket only when there is a cop. E. g country roads doesn"t matter how high ur speed it. Eg if a player wins after wearing dirty clothes he will form a contingency. The tv scenario and the tv signal jammer and the cause of that for people to bend the wires.
