PSYC 1103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Reinforcement, Operant Conditioning, Headache

• School: Mount Royal University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1103
• Professor: Vicki Goodfellow- Duke

Document Summary

B. f. skinner: the role of reinforcement and punishment: reinforcer: any stimulus or event that functions to increase the likelihood of the behavior that led to it; more effective than punishment in promoting learning. Positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement: punisher: any stimulus or event that functions to decrease the likelihood of the behavior that led to it. Positive punishment and negative punishment: primary reinforcers satisfy biological needs and secondary reinforcers are associated with primary reinforcers, overjustification effect: circumstances when external rewards can undermine the intrinsic satisfaction of performing a behavior. If the organism is learning associations between its behavior and the resulting events, it is Operant conditioning involves adjusting to the consequences of our behaviors, so we can easily learn to do more of what works, and less of what doesn"t work. We may smile more at work after this repeatedly gets us bigger tips. We learn how to ride a bike using the strategies that don"t make us crash.