PSYCO282 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Reinforcement, Stimulus Control, Wiki

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO282
• Professor: Karsten A.Loepelmann

Document Summary

Promoting generalization: generalization the occurrence of the behaviour in the presence of stimuli that are similar in some way to the sd that was present during training. One way to promote generalization is to eliminate any punishment contingency that would suppress the desirable behaviour outside the training situation. 1-3: reinforcing the behaviour outside the training situation. Generalization can also be promoted by arranging appropriate stimulus situations and response variations during training. Eg when only one person reinforced the greeting response initially, that person developed stimulus control over the greeting. Eg subjects who were trained with a variety of machines were more successful in operating a noel machine than were the subjects who received training on only one machine. Incorporating common stimuli if the training and generalization situations have some features or stimuli in common, generalization is more likely to occur. Some aspect of the target situation (physical or social stimulus) is used in training.