PSY 3103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Reinforcement, Shock Collar, Dog Training
15 Mar 2016
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Primary reinforcers and primary punishers o biological origin essenial to survival. We don"t need to have any prior experience with these simuli for them to have an efect on us o no learning involved. The ability to reinforce/punish: is not intrinsic to the simulus is not absolute (not always going to be the same) T h e ro l e o f u n co n d i i o n e d s i m u l i ( u s s ) 1: most funcion as: o o primary reinforcers primary punishers. Uncondiioned stimuli would be the ones that elicit pain. This is not classical condiioning (just a simulus-response): Food (in mouth) salivaion; pleasure (+ feeling) Electric shock withdrawal; pain (- feeling, aversive) o o. Pleasure and +ve feeling allow these us to funcion as reinforcers. Pain and ve feeling allow us to funcion as punishers (but people who don"t feel pain won"t feel punished)
