PSYCH 1X03 Lecture 3: INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING
11 Jan 2019
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Module: explicit training between voluntary behaviours and their consequences, the learning of a contingency between behaviour and consequence, classical involuntary; operant voluntary. : 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 positive reinforcer reward. Punishment training: presentation of a negative reinforcer; decreases the frequency of a behaviour, presentation of negative behaviour punishment, authority figure may become a trigger for distress/pain. Acquisition & shaping: acquisition leads to learning the contingency between a response and its consequence. Graphing responses: visualized with a cumulative recorder, pen draws a line on a long piece of paper; each response causes it to move up a notch; leads. Rate of responding to the new behaviour. to a characteristic pattern of acquisition: autoshaping behaviours that can be learned without guidance by a higher power.
