PSY 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Reinforcement, Operant Conditioning, Classical Conditioning

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 505
• Professor: Paul Brunet

Document Summary

Pessimistic in the sense that you don"t have free will. Optimistic in the sense that you can be anything, your genetics don"t force you to be something. Against all the structures we talked about in every other theory. Fictional rubbish that other people made up. Only focus on what you can see, observable behavior that is important. Operant conditioning: consequences of behavior is the focus, is the behavior being reinforced or punished. A: antecedents: elements of the environment right before the behavior is done, circumstances, situation. C: consequences that follow the behavior: punishment/reinforcement. A gives you the context, some behavior will be punished in some situations but be rewarded in other situations, depending on the social surrounding. In class if you do behavior you will be punished but if you do them at home you would not be punished. The a is the important content of the situation.