PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Learning Theory, Observational Learning, Reinforcement

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Dex Allen

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October 30th, 2017: learning refers to an enduring change in the way an organism responds based on its. Classical conditioning issues: temporal order of presentation of cs and ucs is important, best conditioning: cs precedes ucs (forward, worst conditioning: ucs precedes cs (backward) If a flavour is followed by an illness experience, animals will avoid the flavour in the future. Issues in negative reinforcement: negative reinforcement involves a situation in which a response that terminates an aversive stimulus will strengthen that response. Schedules of reinforcement: continuous reinforcement: reinforcer is obtained for every response. Intermittent schedules: reinforcer is not obtained for every response: ratio schedules, fixed ratio: every nth response, variable ratio: the average is every nth response. Interval schedules: fixed interval: after the elapse of n minutes, variable interval: on average, after n minutes. Observational learning: social learning theory (bandura, modeling, vicarious learning, acquisition vs.