COGS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: B. F. Skinner, Operant Conditioning, Behaviorism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Cognitive Science
• Course: COGS 100
• Professor: Jeremy Turner

Document Summary

Learning refers to involuntary responses that result from experiences that occur before a response. : a reward or punishment is anticipated this leads to the more overt manipulation of the reinforcement signals via operant conditioning , change the inner psyche. Learning refers to changes in behavior as a result of experiences that occur after a response. (ibid. Focuses on strengthening or weakening voluntary behavior. : deals with reinforcement and punishment, organism is a black box , psyche is not accessible. Pavlov called the dogs" anticipatory salivation "psychic secretion". Putting these informal observations to an experimental test, pavlov presented a stimulus (e. g. the sound of a metronome) and then gave the dog food; after a few repetitions, the dogs started to salivate in response to the stimulus. Pros: seen as the most scientific and. Objective : external behaviors are quantitatively measurable, led to learning heuristics for.