PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Operant Conditioning Chamber, B. F. Skinner, Classical Conditioning

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Learning a more or less change in behvaiour or behavioural potential that results from experience. Permenant change in behaviour that resulted from experience. The chick video being reqwarded with food if he clicked the right piece of paper. Learning how to ride a bicycle without training wheels. Obedience training a dog to sit. Needles knowing what its going to be like to get one. Ex. vending machine you push button you get candy keep repating you get attuned to it. Ex. hear sound of bag of potatoes chips you anticipate you might get some. Observe : eyes open simply a statting, she blinks a lot after name is spoken still not a contingency, eyes open and she smiled after you mentioned her husboand. Contingent on the stimulus her husband. Dog experiment with saliva: dependent variable saliva, independent variable ringing bell. At first he didn"t react to having the bell ring and associate it with food, but then it became conditioned.