PSYC 2330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Stimulus Control, Token Economy, David Premack

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2330
• Professor: Francesco Leri

Document Summary

Which of the following schedules results in a conditioned or primary reinforcer after every target behaviour: fi, vi, fr, vr, crf. Extinction frustration: frustration can energize behaviour, frustration reactions (rf, partial reinforcement extinction effect, on non-reinforced trials, the animals experience some frustration (rf) which has stimulus effect (sf). Is it appropriate then: what if the child is not hurting anyone or others, behavioural strategies have been applied when the typical forms of teaching and reinforcement have not worked (but have been tried) Token economy (contingency management: population that doesn"t typically respond to normal reinforcers. When social reinforcement fails : points or tokens are established as secondary reinforcers through pairings with a variety of potent reinforcers. Initial interest: evaluate how interested the individual is to begin with, 2. Reinforcing obedience versus competence: reinforce that the behaviour is done competently, not for listening, want to reinforce competent behaviour not obedient behaviour, 3.