PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Empiricism

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

Document Summary

Psyc100: introduction to psychology - lecture 4: learning. Learning - change in behaviour or behavioural potential that results from experience. Using a bell to stimulate salvation in a dogs mouth, after having feed it food and ringing the bell together multiple times. Bird eats butterfly and doesn"t like the taste, it vomits and then refuses to eat the butterfly again. Three term contingency: antecedent behaviour contingency. Operant response any behavioural act that has some effect on the environment (lever press) Reinforcement - increases the likelihood that a particular response will occur (good outcome) Negative reinforcement take away something bad. Punishment decreases the likelihood that a particular response will occur (bad outcome) Response that produce a satisfying effect in a particular situation become more likely to occur again in that situation, and responses that produce a discomforting effect become less likely to occur again in that situation. Satisfying effect (reinforcement): smiles (positive), stops crying (negative)