PSYC 2600H Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Reinforcement, Motivation

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2600H
• Professor: Lehmann Hugo

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Theoreically, variable raio should be the strongest: should be most resistant to exincion, results will not yield this. Export data to excel: acion exhibits the response, time in which snify presses the bar (ex. One situaion gets more reinforcement; the response rates need to match to eliminate diference. Intermitent schedules variable raio there is vast uncertainty interval schedules irst response ater a certain amount of ime strongest rate of responding is variable raio ex. Sandra"s mail is delivered every day at 10:00, she checks several imes a day and only sees it ater 10 am: ixed interval irst response ater a period of ime and the ime is always the same. Francis sells jewelry and each ime he completes 10 pairs, he is paid: fixed. Vernon is pracicing golf, on average it takes 4: variable raio dependent on number of puts. Variable raio high and steady rate of responding no/litle pause.