PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Thalidomide, Personal Development, Introjection

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Steve Spencer

Document Summary

Operant condiioning: skinner and his pigeons. Children"s atacked doll ater watching an adult do it. In classical condiioning learning is the associaion of a cs with a ucs to the extent that the cs produces the ucr (now a cr) Generalizaion occurs when the cs is changed slightly and cr sill happens. Discriminaion occurs when cs is changed and cr does not happen. Exincion occurs when the cs no longer produces the ucr. Operant condiioning has an answer - behavior that is rewarded will occur more oten in the future; behavior that is not rewarded will occur less oten. Note a negaive reinforcer is not a punishment. Primary reinforcers - pleasant in their own right. Condiioned reinforcers - pleasant through their associaion (note the classical condiioning here) Skinner"s account - we learn language through reinforcement. Chomsky"s account - we have an inborn ability to learn language. Bandura thought that perhaps we can learn just by watching.