PSYCH 2GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Reinforcement, Operant Conditioning, Organism
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Lecture 4 operant learning and reinforcement operant learning: says this is different from cc. Responses elicited by a stimulus are labeled respondents (pavlov idea of the bell": elicited" mean they just come about: they are like reflexes, organism reacts to the environment, involuntary. It is important to his theory that it is things in the environment that increase or decrease the animal performing the behavior (this is what is unique to oc) Most of the important behaviours in which people engage are operant. Classical vs. operant conditioning: a lot of the consequences in oc are about consequences reinforcement: The consequences of behaviour determine the probability that the behaviour will occur again (not cause and effect, rather promotes the idea of likelihood") Skinner defines a reinforcer as an event that follows a response and that changes the probability of a response"s occurring again. Reinforcement is simply the effect of a reinforcer.
