PSY 3103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Prosocial Behavior, Stimulus Control
10 Aug 2016
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Prior conditioning: us is the only one that doesn"t require prior conditioning. Even a stimulus that you barely notice can gain stimulus control if there has been enough conditioning. All other stimuli would need prior conditioning to affect behavior. So saying sit, if the dog sits, it sets the occasion for the dog to do the behavior of sitting. Because she became excited it will stick to the cue the word sit. So with prior conditioning you"ve created stimulus control in these says: cs or s^d. Salience of the stimulus: with a lot of conditioning even non salient stimulus can gain stimulus control the salient stimuli are most likely to gain stimulus control (bigger, brighter, louder, closer stimuli). You don"t need to be consciously aware of a stimulus for it to gain stimulus control. i. e. advertising, smell of fresh baked cookies in an open house then not knowing why you loved that house so much.
