PSYC 2330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Reinforcement, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2330
• Professor: Julia Wreford

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Psyc2330 lecture 5 additional positive reinforcement, positive punishment negative reinforcement, negative punishment. More and more likely to do or not do a behaviour if there is a consequence. Thinking about the consequences of a response, and whether or not that consequence will increase or decrease the likelihood of that response occurring again in the future. Negative reinforcement: annoying warning signals and trying to stop them. Stimuli the effects of food, water, sex (effects that can be mimicked by drugs) A previously neutral stimulus that has acquired the capacity of strengthen responses because it has been repeatedly paired with food or with some other primary reinforce. Chimps that learn that a token leads to food, will later treat the tokens as food (hiding behaviours), they are treated as a secondary reinforcer. Money as a secondary reinforcer, it is often treated as a primary reinforcer. Stimuli whose reinforcing properties derive uniquely from the behaviour of other members of the same species.