FRHD 3150 Lecture 4: Week 4 Lecture
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Contextual stimuli y stimuli: anything that you can perceive as present in your environmental context y stimulus control, the degree of correlation between the occurrence of a particular stimulus and of the particular response. Types of stimuli y discriminative stimulus (sd: when the consequence only occurs in the presence of the stimulus y stimulus delta (s triangle) If this stimulus is present, the response will not be reinforced: when the consequence never occurs in the presence of the stimulus. Stimulus discrimination training y procedure of reinforcing a response in the presence of an sd y and extinguishing that response in the presence of striangle. Stimulus generalization y procedure of reinforcing a response in the presence of a stimulus or situation and the effect of the response becoming more probable in the presence of another stimulus or situation. When the behaviour remains the same across various stimuli y.