PSYCO104 Lecture : Psychology 104 Lecture March 26.docx

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Gail Moroschan

Document Summary

The basic principles of operant learning: learning takes place in contexts; behavior is under stimulus control, three term contingency: discriminative stimulus (context you are in), response (behavior you are displaying), reinforcer (what caused the behavior, i. e. : we may swear in front of friends but not in front of children, schedules of reinforcement: Partial reinforcement schedules = reinforcement given only sometimes behavioral responses are learned very fast, even when actual reinforcement is only given 1/10 time: explains why gambling can become such a problem they do not win every time, winning every time would be boring. Variable interval schedule (vi) = behavior is reinforced based on an average time that has expired since the last reinforcement i. e. : radio station giving out a prize sometime during the week exact time not specified, increases likelihood of listening to radio throughout the week i. e. : rewarding a rat for pressing a lever on average every.