PSYC 2440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Classical Conditioning, The Fading

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2440
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Psych 2440 behavior modification principles lecture 10 - chapter 10. Chapter 10 changing the stimulus control of a behavior with fading. The gradual change over successive trials of an antecedent stimulus that controls a response so that the response eventually occurs to a partially changed or completely new antecedent stimulus. A procedure for transferring the control of that response to some other stimulus. The use of a fading procedure to establish a stimulus discrimination so that no errors occur: it was believed that people has to make mistakes while learning in order to know what not to do. If an error occurs once, it tends to occur many times, even though it is being extinguished: the non-reinforcement that occurs when errors are being extinguished often produces emotional side effects. Fading occurs along dimensions of stimuli: e. g. the loudness of a question being asked, the pressure of a teacher"s hand.